queerness
English
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 Thesaurus:strangeness
- (an oddity): deviance, irregularity, outlier; see also Thesaurus:anomaly
- (state of not conforming to sexual norms): nonheterosexuality
Hyponyms
- (state of not conforming to sexual norms): gayness, homosexuality
Translations
the quality of being queer
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