gayness
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6.1
- noun
- /ˈɡeɪnəs/
:
homosexualidad
- She embraced her gayness and felt a deep sense of pride in her identity.
Did you ever feel like that was linked to your gayness?
- Did you ever feel like that was linked to your gayness?
- A gay teacher would infect students with gayness.
- Now in Qatar with the with the, they say we will welcome gay people, but don't exhibit the gayness in the stands.
- It wasn't that long ago when the sports, especially the tough guy sports, would not entertain these ideas about gayness or trans.
- What's like what's like the hand one for for gayness for like the LGBTQIA.
- Five of us just start dying laughing just off the gayness of his voice.
- They didn't really have a a a distinction of gayness like we did.
- So I couldn't figure out is maybe he's a creep or it was accidental gayness.
Examples
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The regulars are astounded to discover the gayness of their white friend Bob ("he cannot be gay—he dresses like a slob!").
Academic text (2012) -
You don't make your gayness a problem, no one else will.
Blog text (1) -
Tell us about the tragedy of your gayness.
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Another name for gayness is homophilia, or love of the same.
Blog text (25) -
You're just not allowed to let your gayness interfere with the workplace.
Blog text (3) -
Making gayness an everyday ordinary thing devalued the threat potential behind being outed as gay.
Blog text (7) -
I don't really see my gayness coinciding with religion like an organized religion.
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But on the rare festive occasions when my co-heteros and I have spoken of gayness, that's what I gathered they meant too.
Blog text (18) -
The celebration highlighted the importance of gayness and diversity in our community.
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Many artists express their experiences of gayness through powerful and emotional works.
Synonyms
188
4.3
Being attracted to people of the same sex
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4.1
A person's feelings, attractions, and identity about the people they are attracted to
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7.2
Attraction to people of the same sex or not following usual gender rules
Sexual attraction to or sexual activity with people of the same sex
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word gayness comes from the word gay, which long ago meant 'happy' and later came to be used for people who are attracted to the same sex; the ending -ness means 'the quality of', just like in happiness. So gayness means 'the state or quality of being gay', and we use it to talk about a person's LGBTQ+ identity.