Difference between Prudery and Prudishness

PRUDERY vs PRUDISHNESS: 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

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

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

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.

This guilt is usually blamed on strict and legalistic religious upbringing and Victorian prudishness about sex.