The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
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
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.
• (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
• (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
7 January 2025
(adverb) in an uninformative manner; “‘I can’t tell you when the manager will arrive,’ he said rather uninformatively”
The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.