queerness

The quality of being queer or odd.

Noun

  1. The quality of being queer or odd.
  2. Something queer; an oddity.
  3. Homosexuality.
  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:

Origin

Etymology tree English queer Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English queerness From queer + -ness.

Forms

queernesses

Synonyms

queerhood abnormality oddness weirdness deviance irregularity outlier nonheterosexuality

Hyponyms

gayness homosexuality