QUEERNESS • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Queerness

Listen

Queerness

noun

A strange attitude or habit. Synonyms: crotchet, oddity, quirk, quirkiness.

A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex. Synonyms: gayness, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality.

See images of 'Queerness'

Etymology of 'Queerness'

Click any word on the page to get its definition

Text size: A A

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Queerness" Quotes from Famous Books

... shows that she belongs in the fourth. The test was made as a demonstration test in the presence of about 150 teachers, all of whom were charmed by her delightful personality and keen responses. No trace of vanity or queerness of any kind. Health excellent. E. B. ought to be ready for high school at 12; she will really have the intelligence to do high-school ...

— The Measurement of Intelligence • Lewis Madison Terman

Read full book for free!

... what do you think you see?" I demanded, going to his side, and somehow thrilled by the queerness ...

— Overdue - The Story of a Missing Ship • Harry Collingwood

Read full book for free!

... the adults of the table by a significant movement of the head, and, by another, conveyed an admonition to drop the subject until later. Miss Spence was Penrod's teacher: it was better, for many reasons, not to discuss the subject of her queerness before him. This was Mrs. Schofield's thought at the time. Later she had another, and it kept ...

— Penrod • Booth Tarkington

Read full book for free!

... The wood, then," said Lucy, startled at his queerness, but pretty sure that he would explain later; it was not his habit to leave her in doubt as ...

— A Room With A View • E. M. Forster

Read full book for free!

Words linked to "Queerness" : strangeness, pederasty, unfamiliarity, lesbianism, paederasty, sexual activity, sexual practice, queer, sexual inversion, inversion, sapphism, sex activity, sex