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queerness

queerness noun: the quality of being queer or odd.

Noun

queerness (countable and uncountable, plural 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.2023 June 26, Billy Lezra, “Opinion: Going sober taught me something about Pride”, in CNN

queerness meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Arabic

queerness in Tamil

வழக்கத்திற்கு மாறுபட்ட ஒன்று, விசித்திரம், முரண், விந்தை, வினோதம், சந்தேகத்திற்கிடமானது

queerness in Urdu

غرابت

queerness in Malayalam

വൈചിത്യ്രം, പുതുമ, അപൂർവ്വത

queerness in Arabic

the quality of being queer
كُوِيرِيَّة kuwīriyya

Examples of queerness in a sentence

  • Looking raises these questions and explores the tensions between queerness and assimilation.
  • Or, at the very least, demisexuality imposes more difficulty in describing my particular brand of queerness.
  • You cannot blame their gayness, their queerness, their homosexuality on sudden wealth.

All 14 example sentences with queerness

Synonyms of queerness

All synonyms of queerness

Forms of queerness

pluralqueernesses

Origin of queerness

From queer + -ness.

Questions about queerness

What does queerness mean?
Queerness means the quality of being queer or odd.
What is queerness in Tamil?
Queerness in Tamil is வழக்கத்திற்கு மாறுபட்ட ஒன்று, விசித்திரம், முரண். See Queerness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is queerness?
Queerness is a noun.
What is the plural of queerness?
The plural of queerness is queernesses.

Words near queerness in the dictionary

  1. queerly
  2. queermisia
  3. queermisic
  4. queermo
  5. queermos
  6. queerness
  7. queernesses
  8. queernorm
  9. queernormative
  10. queernormativity
  11. queerosexual

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: queerness (page history and authors); queerness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); queerness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); queerness (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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.

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