puritanical views
Rigid moral standards
Puritanical views are strict moral attitudes, especially regarding pleasure, sex, and entertainment.
The term references the Puritans' severe religious standards but now applies broadly to anyone excessively concerned with moral propriety: Her puritanical views on dating seem out of step with modern life.
Often carries a critical edge, implying rigidity or joylessness.
- scowlAngry facial expression
- scarlet letterMark of public shame
- asceticismSevere self-denial practice
- silenceTotal lack of sound
- CalvinismPredestinarian Protestant theology
prudishness · Victorian values · modesty · austerity · self-denial · sermon · fundamentalism · chastity · counterculture · censorship · temperance · hymn · Protestantism · fire and brimstone · propriety · pew · pietism · holier than thou
puritanical viewsmoral relativism
Values vary by context
progressive values · open-mindedness · permissiveness · free-thinking · tolerance
puritanical viewshedonism
Pursuit of gratification
libertinism · epicureanism · pleasure-seeking · sensualism · sexual liberation
puritanical viewssexual liberation
Freedom in intimate matters
free love · sexual freedom · sexual autonomy · body positivity
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