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Definition: Primness |
PrimnessNoun1. Excessive or affected modesty. 2. Exaggerated and arrogant properness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "primness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Synonyms: PrimnessSynonyms: priggishness (n), prudery (n), prudishness (n). (additional references) |
| "Primness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Primness" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "primness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مناسب جدا, بتكلف. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | надута коректност, надута официалност, прекалена моралност, превзетост (fineness, flamboyance, mannerism, preciosity), педантичност (hairsplitting, nicety, pedantry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | façon guindé, façon compassé, caractère convenable. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Steifheit (crispness, erectness, formality, frigidity, hardness, rigidity, starchiness, stiffness, strength). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κομψότησ (jauntiness, neatness, prettiness, rakishness, smartness, spruceness, stylishness, trigness, trimmness), κομψότητα (comeliness, daintiness, elegance, elegancy, jauntiness, neatness, prettiness, rakishness, smartness, spruceness, stylishness, trigness, trimmness), σεμνοτυφία (prudery, prudishness), επιτήδευση (affectation, mannerism, priggery, priggishness, prissiness, sophistication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "צט עות (demureness, hiding, modesty), "ק"ק ות (fastidiousness, meticulousness, punctiliousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mesterkéltség (affectation, artificiality, mannerism, theatricality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | eccessivo ordine, eccessiva modestia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | metteeys (delicacy, delicateness, tenderness, tenderness of health), dendeaysid (daintiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | imnesspray meticulosidade (particularity), formalismo (ceremony, formalism, formality, formulism, precisianism, starch), arranjo meticuloso, afetação (affectation, affectedness, airs, assumption, courtliness, coxcombry, frill, mannerism, namby-pamby, pomposity, preciosity, pretence, pretense, pretension). (various references) ordonare (ordering), afectare (affectation, affecting, archness, demureness, dissimulation, fastidiousness, feint, foppery, foppishness, hypercriticism, mannerism, pose, preciosity, sham). (various references) чопорность (offishness, prissiness, starch). (various references) nategnutost, izveštačenost (affectation, artificiality, mannerism, theatricality). (various references) remilgo (squeamishness), lo etiquetero (formality), lo estirado. (various references) prydhet, prudentlighet. (various references) resmiyet (ceremony, formality, starch, stiffness), resmilik (ceremony), aşırı ciddilik. (various references) манірність (affectation, affectedness, buckram, mannerism, namby-pamby, nicety, offishness). (various references) tính lên mặt đạo đức, tính hay ra vẻ tiết hạnh, tính hay ra vẻ nghiêm nghị, tính hay ra vẻ đoan trang, tính hay ra vẻ đứng đắn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "primness": primnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Primness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bremness, preakness, Prinses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "primness" (pronounced 'Prim"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-m-n-p-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: impress, mispens, premiss, simpers, snipers, spirems. | |
-2 letters: miners, misers, mispen, pisser, primes, prises, prisms, remiss, repins, resins, rinses, ripens, serins, simper, sirens, sniper, snipes, speirs, sperms, spiers, spines, spirem, spires. | |
-3 letters: emirs, miens, miner, mines, mires, miser, mises, peins, penis, peris, perms, piers, pines, pirns, press, pries, prime, prims, prise, prism, priss, reins. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-m-n-p-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: nephrisms, primeness, spermines. | |
+2 letters: grumpiness, impressing, impression, impureness, permission, persimmons, presentism, primnesses, spearmints, spoonerism, superminds, superminis. | |
+3 letters: angiosperms, compressing, compression, impressions, impressment, mentorships, paramnesias, parsimonies, permissions, personalism, premoistens, premonishes, presentisms, primenesses, prosceniums, proseminars, resumptions, spoonerisms, springtimes, unimpressed. | |
+4 letters: compressions, consumership, desipramines, disportments, foremanships, gossipmonger, grumpinesses, horsemanship, hypermnesias, impersonates, imprecisions, impressments, improperness, impurenesses, managerships, marlinspikes, minesweepers, misanthropes, misrepresent, monodisperse, paternalisms, personalisms, pleinairisms, preadmission, presumptions, reassumption, reimpression, unimpressive. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 69 6D 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. .. -- -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01101001 01101101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r i m n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0069 006D 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5084757980718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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