Word Study
queerness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun queerness has 2 senses
- queerness(n = noun.attribute) crotchet, oddity, quirk, quirkiness - a strange attitude or habit; Array is a kind of strangeness, unfamiliarity
- queerness(n = noun.act) gayness, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality - a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex; Array is a kind of sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice
Derived form adjective queer1
has particulars: inversion, sexual inversion, lesbianism, sapphism, paederasty, pederasty
Derived form adjective queer2
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