noun
Meaning 1
The quality of being queer or odd.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
queerness
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noun
Meaning 2
Something queer; an oddity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
Meaning 3
Homosexuality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: offensive, possibly, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
The quality of being queer, in the sense of not conforming to sexual or gender norms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: homosexuality, homosexualism, homoeroticism, gayness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
Narrower terms: inversion, sexual inversion, lesbianism, sapphism, pederasty, paederasty
noun
Meaning 6
a strange attitude or habit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: oddity, quirk, quirkiness, crotchet
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: unfamiliarity, strangeness
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English queer Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English queerness From queer + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: queerius — the quality of being queer
- French: queerness — the quality of being queer
- French: queerité — the quality of being queer
- Georgian: უცნაურობა (ucnauroba) — the quality of being queer
- Irish: aisteachas — the quality of being queer
- Irish: aistiúlacht — the quality of being queer
- Irish: aiteacht — the quality of being queer
- Irish: aiteas — the quality of being queer
- Irish: greannmhaireacht — the quality of being queer
- Irish: suaithníocht — the quality of being queer
- Polish: queer — the quality of being queer