Synonyms for queerness
Most common
singularity weirdness strangeness deviance homosexuality gayness
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Oddity
oddity, strangeness, deviance, singularity, weirdness, oddness, abnormality, quirkiness, anomaly, irregularity, quirk, outlier, crotchet, eccentricity, aberration, unusualness
2. Gayness — homosexuality
gayness, homosexuality, homoeroticism, homosexualism, uranism dated
3. Queerhood — the quality of being queer, in the sense of not conforming to sexual or gender norms
Definitions
- n. 1
Homosexuality.
- n. 2
The quality of being queer, in the sense of not conforming to sexual or gender norms.
- n. 3
The quality of being queer or odd.
Forms
- Plural
- queernesses → oddities, strangenesses, deviances, singularities…
Example sentences
- singularity After the Singularity, we will all have nine dimensional sex organs.
- weirdness Spiritualness doesn't always equal weirdness.
- strangeness The strangeness of such a claim forced me to laugh.
- deviance Emile Durkheim argued that deviance was necessary for a society to function.
- homosexuality There were a lot of writings about homosexuality.
- gayness I told Tom to tone down his gayness.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| queerness | rising | |
| singularity | rising | |
| weirdness | rising | |
| strangeness | rising | |
| deviance | rising | |
| homosexuality | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- quirk1
- 6 letters
- oddity3
- 7 letters
- anomaly4, outlier3, gayness2, oddness, uranism
- 8 letters
- deviance3, crotchet
- 9 letters
- weirdness2, queerhood
- 10 letters
- aberration4, quirkiness
- 11 letters
- singularity5, abnormality5, strangeness2, unusualness
- 12 letters
- eccentricity5, irregularity6
- 13 letters
- homosexuality7, homoeroticism, homosexualism
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (oddity3 = 3 syllables).