Word.ws English Dictionary

antigayness

antigayness noun: homophobia.

Noun

antigayness (uncountable)

  1. homophobia
    • Just as we recognize that racism and sexism are crucial issues that divide us, […] and are therefore issues that all working people must deal with, just so we raise the issue of gay oppression and the need to combat anti-gayness in a spirit of unity.1976 February 14, Michael Bumblebee, quoting Gay Caucus, “Gay Folks and The 'Hard Times'”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 33, page 3

Origin of antigayness

From antigay + -ness.

Questions about antigayness

What does antigayness mean?
Antigayness means homophobia.
What part of speech is antigayness?
Antigayness is a noun.

Words near antigayness in the dictionary

  1. antigas
  2. antigassing
  3. antigastric
  4. antigay
  5. antigayism
  6. antigayness
  7. antigelatinolytic
  8. antigen
  9. antigen-presenting cell
  10. antigenaemia
  11. antigenaemias

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: antigayness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “antigayness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/antigayness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.