queerness
nounEtymology From queer + -ness.
1
The quality of being queer or odd.
2
Something queer; an oddity.
4
The quality of being queer, in the sense of not conforming to sexual or gender norms.
- My queerness and my addiction to alcohol flourished in a tiny bar tucked in San Francisco’s Castro district.2023 June 26, Billy Lezra, “Opinion: Going sober taught me something about Pride”, in CNN:
- Synonyms
- queerhood, abnormality, oddness, weirdness, deviance, irregularity, outlier, nonheterosexuality
- Hyponyms
- gayness, homosexuality