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neuroqueerness

neuroqueerness noun: the state or quality of being neuroqueer.

Noun

neuroqueerness (uncountable)

  1. (neologism) The state or quality of being neuroqueer.
    • For Rekers and Lovaas, the etiologies of childhood gender variance or autism were insignificant, for they believed that modifying social conditions by means of behavioral control would mask any traces of neuroqueerness.2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, unnumbered page
    • Neuroqueer(ness) represents an array of relationships between neurology and queerness including being both neurodivergent and queer, actively choosing to embody one’s neurodivergence, or queering ones cognitive processes (Walker, 2015).2019, Robin Roscigno, “Neuroqueerness as Fugitive Practice: Reading Against the Grain of Applied Behavioral Analysis Scholarship”, in Educational Studies: A Journal of the American Educational...
    Synonyms:
    neuroqueer

Synonyms of neuroqueerness

Origin of neuroqueerness

From neuroqueer + -ness.

Questions about neuroqueerness

What does neuroqueerness mean?
Neuroqueerness means the state or quality of being neuroqueer.
What part of speech is neuroqueerness?
Neuroqueerness is a noun.

Words near neuroqueerness in the dictionary

  1. neuropterous
  2. neuropters
  3. neuroqueer
  4. neuroqueered
  5. neuroqueering
  6. neuroqueerness
  7. neuroqueers
  8. neuroradiographer
  9. neuroradiographers
  10. neuroradiographic
  11. neuroradiographical

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