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n. - An attraction to persons of the same gender; A strange attitude or habit.

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Usage examples (34)
  • But I shall say no more at present, as her queerness is the subject of the rest of this story.
  • First, there is what one might term the queerness of the mental if conceived of as non-physical.
  • At the gate Jed's "queerness," or shyness, came upon him.
  • And his "queerness" developed, as under such circumstances it was bound to do.
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