Victorianism

English

Etymology

Victorian +‎ -ism

Noun

Victorianism (countable and uncountable, plural Victorianisms)

1. The behaviour or beliefs of the Victorians, especially prudery.
   • 1997 January 9, Morton Kondracke, “TV won't slow 'slouch to Gomorrah'”, in The Greenwood Index-Journal:

     It is simply the imposition of more Victorianism into community standards.

2. An expression or idiom characteristic of Victorian times.