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How to pronounce queerness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms gayness, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality
Type of sex activity, sexual activity, sex, sexual practice
Has types sapphism, sexual inversion, inversion, lesbianism, paederasty, pederasty
Derivation queer
Type Words
Synonyms crotchet, oddity, quirk, quirkiness
Type of strangeness, unfamiliarity
Derivation queer

Examples of queerness

queerness
That was a really good thing for that show to have so much queerness.
From the orlandosentinel.com
A celebration of women and queerness in all of its manifestations.
From the sfgate.com
In his portrayal, Hirsh betrays no gesture of queerness or bathos.
From the time.com
It is a romance without queerness or pathos.
From the time.com
All Bennett's work seems to me a dreamy evocation of an imaginary world in which he'd like to dwell, full of jokes and queerness.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
In this absurdist-western romp through gender queerness, Dakota and Bailey find themselves lost, possibly upside down, in a strange world with even stranger characters.
From the sfgate.com
It now seems a film of such telegraphic queerness that it's hard to believe some of those schoolgirls'posters weren't unpinned months before Victim reached the cinemas.
From the guardian.co.uk
Queerness becomes a way to simultaneously make a political move against heteronormativity while simultaneously refusing to engage in traditional essentialist identity politics.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • Oddity: a strange attitude or habit
  • Homosexuality: a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex
  • "The Argument from Queerness" is a term used in the philosophical study of ethics first developed by J. L. Mackie in his book Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong ISBN 0-14-013558-8 (1977)
  • The quality of being queer