QUEERNESS

homosexuality, homosexualism, homoeroticism, queerness, gayness

(noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex

oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, crotchet

(noun) a strange attitude or habit

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

queerness (countable and uncountable, plural queernesses)

(uncountable) The quality of being queer or odd.

(countable) Something queer; an oddity.

(uncountable) The quality of being queer, in the sense of not conforming to sexual or gender norms.

Synonyms

• (all): queerhood

• (state of being odd): abnormality, oddness, weirdness; see also strangeness

• (an oddity): deviance, irregularity, outlier; see also anomaly

• (state of not conforming to sexual norms): nonheterosexuality

Hyponyms

• (state of not conforming to sexual norms): gayness, homosexuality

Source: Wiktionary


Queer"ness, n.

Definition: The quality or state of being queer.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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