QUEERNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does queerness mean? 

• QUEERNESS (noun)
  The noun QUEERNESS has 2 senses:

1. a strange attitude or habit

2. a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex

  Familiarity information: QUEERNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUEERNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A strange attitude or habit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

crotchet; oddity; queerness; quirk; quirkiness

Hypernyms ("queerness" is a kind of...):

strangeness; unfamiliarity (unusualness as a consequence of not being well known)

Derivation:

queer (beyond or deviating from the usual or expected)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

gayness; homoeroticism; homosexualism; homosexuality; queerness

Hypernyms ("queerness" is a kind of...):

sex; sex activity; sexual activity; sexual practice (activities associated with sexual intercourse)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "queerness"):

inversion; sexual inversion (a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex)

lesbianism; sapphism (female homosexuality)

paederasty; pederasty (sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner))

Derivation:

queer (homosexual or arousing homosexual desires)