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queerness|ˈkwɪənɪs|
[f. queer a.1 + -ness.]
1. Strangeness († reluctance); queer ways, condition, etc. Also, an instance of this.
1687Bp. Trelawny in T. Papers Camden Misc. (1853) II. 19 There seemed a greate querenesse in them to the signing of it. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) IV. 171 Queernesses I could not away with. 1821–30Ld. Cockburn Mem. 54 The boys stared at him for his queerness. 1879R. J. Atcherley Trip Boërland 43 Six or eight [oxen] were lying dead, and the whole..were showing unmistakable signs of queerness.
2. Homosexuality. Cf. queer a.1 1 b.
1956L. McIntosh Oxford Folly 104 Some of the most brilliant Oxford figures are queers, and the others simply ape their mannerisms without having the courage to imitate their queerness. 1958Observer 4 May 15/5 A play which says more about the simple, non-tragic aspects of queerness than anything our theatre has so far permitted. 1965New Statesman 9 July 58/1 Osborne has taken queerness as his subject precisely as Nabokov took the love of pubescent girls. |