queerness

English

Etymology

From queer +‎ -ness.

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Noun

queerness (countable and uncountable, plural queernesses)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being queer or odd.
2. (countable) Something queer; an oddity.
3. (uncountable, possibly offensive) Homosexuality.
4. (uncountable) The quality of being queer, in the sense of not conforming to sexual or gender norms.
   • 2023 June 26, Billy Lezra, “Opinion: Going sober taught me something about Pride”, in CNN‎:

     My queerness and my addiction to alcohol flourished in a tiny bar tucked in San Francisco’s Castro district.

Synonyms

• (state of being): 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

Finnish: queerius 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