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neuro-queer

neuro-queer is the alternative spelling of neuroqueer.

Meaning of neuroqueer

Adjective

neuroqueer (comparative more neuroqueer, superlative most neuroqueer)

  1. (neologism) Belonging to, characteristic of, or related to the intersection of neurodivergence and queerness, particularly autism and LGBT identities.
    • Whether discussed in clinical journals or in media accounts, ABA purports to change neural pathways, rewire neuroqueer brains, and ford synapses.2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, page 123

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Forms of neuro-queer

Adjective
comparativemore neuro-queer
superlativemost neuro-queer
Noun
pluralneuro-queers
Verb
third-person singular presentneuro-queers
present participleneuro-queering
past participleneuro-queered
pastneuro-queered

Questions about neuro-queer

What is neuro-queer the alternative spelling of?
Neuro-queer is the alternative spelling of neuroqueer.

Words near neuro-queer in the dictionary

  1. neuro-ophthalmological
  2. neuro-ophthalmologist
  3. neuro-ophthalmologists
  4. neuro-ophthalmology
  5. neuro-otology
  6. neuro-queer
  7. neuro-spicy
  8. neuro-symbolic
  9. neuro-ultrasonographic
  10. neuro-ultrasonography
  11. neuroablative

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