"queerness" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nEnglish queer\nProto-Germanic *-inōną\nProto-Indo-European *-dyé-\nProto-Germanic *-atjaną\nProto-Indo-European *-tus\nProto-Germanic *-þuz\nProto-Germanic *-assuz\nProto-Germanic *-inassuz\nProto-West Germanic *-nassī\nOld English -nes\nMiddle English -nesse\nEnglish -ness\nEnglish queerness\nFrom queer + -ness.",
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    {
      "form": "queernesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "queerness (countable and uncountable, plural queernesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
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      "sense": "state of not conforming to sexual norms",
      "word": "gayness"
    },
    {
      "sense": "state of not conforming to sexual norms",
      "word": "homosexuality"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "categories": [
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      ],
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        "The quality of being queer or odd."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "queer",
          "queer"
        ],
        [
          "odd",
          "odd"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) The quality of being queer or odd."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something queer; an oddity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "oddity",
          "oddity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) Something queer; an oddity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English offensive terms",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Homosexuality."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Homosexuality",
          "homosexuality#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable, possibly offensive) Homosexuality."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "offensive",
        "possibly",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
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        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              3,
              12
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2023 June 26, Billy Lezra, “Opinion: Going sober taught me something about Pride”, in CNN:",
          "text": "My queerness and my addiction to alcohol flourished in a tiny bar tucked in San Francisco’s Castro district.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The quality of being queer, in the sense of not conforming to sexual or gender norms."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) The quality of being queer, in the sense of not conforming to sexual or gender norms."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "state of being",
      "word": "queerhood"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "of being odd"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "state"
      ],
      "word": "abnormality"
    },
    {
      "word": "oddness"
    },
    {
      "word": "weirdness"
    },
    {
      "alt": "an oddity",
      "word": "deviance"
    },
    {
      "word": "irregularity"
    },
    {
      "word": "outlier"
    },
    {
      "sense": "state of not conforming to sexual norms",
      "word": "nonheterosexuality"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "lang_code": "ar",
      "roman": "kuwīriyya",
      "sense": "the quality of being queer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "كُوِيرِيَّة"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "the quality of being queer",
      "word": "queerius"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "the quality of being queer",
      "word": "queerness"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "the quality of being queer",
      "word": "queerité"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "lang_code": "ka",
      "roman": "ucnauroba",
      "sense": "the quality of being queer",
      "word": "უცნაურობა"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "the quality of being queer",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "aisteachas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "the quality of being queer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "aistiúlacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "the quality of being queer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "aiteacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "the quality of being queer",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "aiteas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "the quality of being queer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "greannmhaireacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "the quality of being queer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "suaithníocht"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "the quality of being queer",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "queer"
    }
  ],
  "word": "queerness"
}