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Definition of Queerness
1. Noun. A strange attitude or habit.
Generic synonyms: Strangeness, Unfamiliarity
Derivative terms: Crotchety, Queer, Quirky, Quirky
2. Noun. A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex.
Generic synonyms: Sex, Sex Activity, Sexual Activity, Sexual Practice
Specialized synonyms: Inversion, Sexual Inversion, Lesbianism, Sapphism, Paederasty, Pederasty
Derivative terms: Gay, Homoerotic, Homosexual, Queer
Definition of Queerness
1. n. The quality or state of being queer.
Definition of Queerness
1. Noun. the quality of being queer ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Queerness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Queerness
Literary usage of Queerness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Preachers and Preaching by Nicholas Murray (1860)
"Notoriety sought by Queerness, by isms, and Hobbies.—The Scotchman.—The Rights
of Ministers, and the Limits of their Rights. WE are yet discussing the ..."
2. The Emmanuel Movement in a New England Town; a Systematic Account of by Lyman Pierson Powell (1909)
"Some queer ones affect queerness. They get from it an inner satisfaction which they
... They do not see their queerness as it really is,—abnormal egotism, ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"So that, ш fact, Campbell's second species are merely a variety of the first.
The third species, marked by 'queerness and singularity of imagery,1 are ..."
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