Home › Words › P › prudenessprudenessprudeness means the quality or state of being prudish.EtymologyFrom prude + -ness.nounThe quality or state of being prudish.e.g.“I find that this time around, I'm writing with a little less prudeness."” — 2009 September 3, Ayala Ben-Yehuda, “Shakira gets in touch with her animal nature”, in Toronto Star:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).