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单词 queerity
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queerityn.

Brit. /ˈkwɪərᵻti/, U.S. /ˈkwɪrədi/
Forms: see queer adj.1 and -ity suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: queer adj.1, -ity suffix.
Etymology: < queer adj.1 + -ity suffix. Compare earlier queerness n.
Now rare.
Queerness, oddity; an instance of this; a peculiarity.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > oddness
oddness1611
queerity1711
particularity1712
whimsicalness1715
oddity1739
queerness1748
whimsicality1761
singularity1768
quizzity1788
eccentricity1794
quizziness1798
queerishness1803
fantasticness1825
rumness1840
weirdness1869
quirkiness1870
rumminess1872
whimsiness1909
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 17. ⁋3 No Person..shall be admitted without a visible Quearity in his Aspect, or peculiar Cast of Countenance.
1720–21 Lett. from Mist's Jrnl. (1722) II. 303 When I survey the Querity of thy Aspect.
1797 A. Fanshawe Easter Holidays 60 The life of a parson has no great charms for me. I should not like the constant black coat, with the ridiculous little head, and ten thousand other queerities!
a1849 E. A. Poe Marginalia in Wks. (1864) III. 555 The pages have now and then a typographical queerity.
1880 R. D. Blackmore Mary Anerley II. 146 York city, teeming..with most delightful queerities.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 379 Yet sometimes they are found in the right guess with their queerities no telling how.
1974 H. Porter Fredo Fuss Love Life 43 Late at night the queerity and melancholy of hour-after-hour drinkers begin to show.
2003 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 17 Nov. 1 Consider the architectural queerities of West Chelsea, both extant and planned.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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