queerness
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈkwɪrnəs/
:
homosexualidad
- Meanwhile, the real reason that you shouldn't punish Bob for queerness is that there's nothing wrong with it!
- LeRoy's queerness
- Queerness and innocence
- Queerness is erased
So they felt that queerness was foreign.
- So they felt that queerness was foreign.
- If you only knew the mental anguish people go through just accepting their queerness.
Examples
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At home, surrounded by the familiar and the comforting, one's emergent "queerness" is isolated.
Blog text (12) -
The story "Baby Doll" in Heart clearly exemplifies the ways that Jeremiah's innocence constructs his queerness.
Academic text (2014) -
So they felt that queerness was foreign.
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We might ask what is the relation between this resistance to "keeping time" and queerness?
Academic text (1999) -
The normative construction of the child leaves little room for a child's overt queerness.
Academic text (2014) -
Both Albert's fiction and the response to it reveal the way that queerness and the child operate in the queer archive and in the broader cultural imagination.
Academic text (2014) -
However, Edelman's focus on queerness and narrative makes it especially useful for analyzing postmodernist poetics and sexuality.
Academic text (2017) -
The audiences joined in celebration of queerness and non-normative desire in the liminality of the club and experienced transformative catharsis as a result.
Academic text (2013) -
The archive of feelings is not just about LGBT queerness; it's about an attunement to racialized histories, as well as sexualized ones.
Academic text (2012) -
In today's society, embracing one's queerness can lead to a greater sense of community and acceptance.
Synonyms
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4.3
Being attracted to people of the same sex
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6.1
Romantic and sexual feelings between women
7
5.3
A sexual attraction to both men and women
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6.1
Having romantic or sexual feelings for people of the same sex
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7.9
Being attracted to people of any gender
A way of describing sexual attraction that includes many different orientations beyond common labels
Sexual attraction to or sexual activity with people of the same sex
Antonyms
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9.9
The idea that straight relationships and traditional gender roles are normal and preferred in society
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Queerness also comes from queer, which later became an insulting name for people who were not 'straight', but many people have taken the word back and now use it with pride, so queerness can mean 'being not straight' or 'not following usual rules about gender and sex'.