queerness

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English

Etymology

From queer +‎ -ness.

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

French: queerness (fr), queerité (fr)
Georgian: უცნაურობა (ucnauroba)
Irish: aisteachas m, aistiúlacht f, aiteacht f, aiteas m, greannmhaireacht f, suaithníocht f
Polish: queer (pl) m

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