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queerness

  • /ˈkwɪə(ɹ)nəs/

noun queernesses

  1. uncountable The quality of being queer or odd.
  2. countable Something queer; an oddity.
  3. offensive, possibly, uncountable Homosexuality.
  4. uncountable 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.

    Similar: queerhood, nonheterosexuality

Similar: abnormality, oddness, weirdness, deviance, irregularity, outlier

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noun

Similar: abnormality, oddness, weirdness, deviance, irregularity, outlier

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noun the quality of being queer

Françaisqueerness, queerité
العربيةكُوِيرِيَّة kuwīriyya

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@misc{queerness_2026,
  title = {queerness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/queerness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}