noun

• 1The state or condition of being strange.

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  • ‘the queerness of it gave me a kind of fright’

• 2offensive Homosexuality.

  1. 2.1The quality or characteristic of having a sexual or gender identity that does not correspond to established ideas of sexuality and gender, especially heterosexual norms.
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     • ‘in the conversation about identity, queerness, and the trans experience there's a lot that many of us have to learn’