queerness
- noun
- /ˈkwɪrnəs/
- Archaic
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extrañeza
- The artist's work captures the queerness of modern life, challenging conventional expectations.
Examples
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This is not to suggest a progress narrative or to frame disability as that which somehow "lags behind" queerness, but to highlight the disjointed temporalities through which queer and crip signify against one another in Fun Home.
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There's also a fair bit of queerness in this book and cheating and swapping partners.
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This in turn highlights the awkwardness, indeed queerness, of the idea of the nation itself.
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Italy has tiny fringe social movements; it lacks ambiguity and queerness.
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Jeremiah's pure innocence, in effect, produces a child who acts queerly while remaining ignorant of the queerness of those actions.
Academic text (2014) -
In other words, Albert's performance was not just a deception of hidden identity, but a deception that threatened the innocence of childhood by writing queerness onto it.
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That the "queerness" of Strawberry Hill was sensed in early nineteenth-century critiques by some of the first Victorian Gothic Revivalists is of interest to us.
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The child can be both innocent to the extent that it is the antithesis of queerness, as Edelman argues, and queer in its irresolvable strangeness, as Stockton proposes.
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In Hollywood Code-era movies, it was not unusual to connote queerness through what you heard but didn't see—often in ghost or supernatural stories about forces from the past coming back to disrupt the present.
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Her queerness made her stand out among her peers, as she embraced individuality and nonconformity.
Synonyms
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9.1
Strange or unusual in a way you notice
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7.8
Unusual behavior or habits that are different from what most people do
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5.5
The feeling that something is unusual or hard to explain
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5.9
An unusual habit, quality, or way of thinking
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5.2
Something that is not normal and can be seen in the body or test results
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7.9
Behavior that most people in a group do not accept
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5.6
An unusual but pleasant way of behaving
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7.9
Behavior that most people in a society do not accept
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5.8
A state of being unusual or strange in a way that is hard to explain
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6.9
A state of being very strange or unusual that surprises people
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7.5
Doing things in a new or unusual way
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7.8
Unusual behavior about sex or personal style that seems strange
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8.4
Being very unusual in appearance, ideas, or behavior
Antonyms
How Strange
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Queerness comes from queer, which long ago meant 'strange' or 'odd', so it still describes the quality of being different from what is usual.