Difference between Prudery and Primness

PRUDERY vs PRIMNESS: NOUN

Prudish behaviour
The condition of being prudish; prudishness
The quality or state of being prudish; excessive or affected scrupulousness in speech or conduct; stiffness; coyness.
The quality or character of being prudish; extreme propriety in behavior; affected coyness or modesty; primness.
An instance of prudish behavior or talk.
The state or quality of being prudish.
Excessive or affected modesty

The quality or state of being prim, precise, or proper.
The quality or state of being prim; affected formality or niceness; preciseness; stiffness.
The state or condition of being prim or formal; affected niceness or preciseness.
Exaggerated and arrogant properness
Excessive or affected modesty

Puritan, Bashfulness, Fustiness, Sanctimony, Snobbishness, Snobbery, Pompousness, Philistinism, Libertinism, Priggishness, Prurience, Puritanism, Grundyism, Primness, Prudishness

Boyishness, Politesse, Demureness, Daintiness, Peevishness, Gentility, Girlishness, Imperiousness, Pompousness, Fustiness, Dandyism, Grundyism, Prudishness, Prudery, Priggishness

Political correctness, Male chauvinism, Misogyny, Puritan, Bashfulness, Fustiness, Sanctimony, Snobbery, Pompousness, Philistinism, Libertinism, Priggishness, Prurience, Puritanism, Primness

Impassivity, Dowdiness, Boyishness, Politesse, Demureness, Daintiness, Peevishness, Gentility, Girlishness, Imperiousness, Pompousness, Fustiness, Dandyism, Prudery, Priggishness

He understood now that these zones were not merely prudery, but necessary to the survival of the species.
Every one must remember that the Cabal set out with the most astonishing prudery, both moral and political.
Combining coarse virility with Victorian prudery, he was certainly no sensualist, no epicurean.
Victorian prudery toward the body and especially toward sex.
Whoever is right, director Ryan Murphy has more than made up for her putative prudery.
Victorian prudery haunts modern male progressivism in the realm of political thought.
The prudery of Americans no longer amazes, it has become plain depressing.
Primal nakedness and civilized prudery aboutnudity are jarred together.
In return, she had made comments about American prudery.
Financial considerations often outweighed condemnation out of prudery.

Here Carroll almost leads us to believe that Victorian social ritual merely entails a primness with the stiffness of a starched cravat.