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Decorum vs Prudish - What's the difference?

decorum | prudish |

As a noun decorum

is decorum.

As an adjective prudish is

of excessive propriety; easily offended or shocked, especially by sexual matters.

decorum

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) Appropriate social behavior; propriety
  • * 2010 — , This Isn't What It Looks Like , ch. 4
    • It was sort of a finishing school. You know, to teach proper social decorum and so on and so forth.
  • (countable) A convention of social behavior

    • Related terms

    * decorous

    prudish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of excessive propriety; easily offended or shocked, especially by sexual matters

    • Related terms

    * prudery * prudishness

    See also

    * straight-laced * prim * priggish * prissy * puritanical