| English noun: queerness | |||
| 1. | queerness (attribute) a strange attitude or habit | ||
| Synonyms | crotchet, oddity, quirk, quirkiness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | strangeness, unfamiliarity | ||
| 2. | queerness (act) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex | ||
| Synonyms | gayness, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | inversion, lesbianism, paederasty, pederasty, sapphism, sexual inversion | ||