as in sickness
a disturbed condition of the stomach in which one feels like vomiting
after the roller coaster ride, I had to rest to overcome the dizziness and queerness that I was feeling
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Recent Examples of queerness
Co-directors Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig mix cinema vérité, Super 8 footage, and stylized scenes into a cocktail where machismo and queerness come together.
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 17 Mar. 2026
For all its public association with queerness, ballet remains largely committed to a frail, wispy femininity and a princely but muscular and explosive masculinity—with the stringent, often punishing body-shape standards to match.
—Chloe Angyal, Time, 9 Mar. 2026
Where queerness was not demonized, as some of the models were drag queens?
—Bryan Barcena, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
Narratives by Black and Brown writers, stories shaped by queerness, and accounts informed by feminist critique now regularly find a place on bookstore shelves.
—Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026
Now there are cool churches who accept queerness and don’t paint it as this horrific sin.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2026
The music, dialect, sense of humour, and resourcefulness often associated with this particular island in the North Atlantic feel intertwined with their queerness.
—Hazlitt, 4 Feb. 2026
Many entries in the genre exist in the uncanny valley between heterosexuality and queerness, where a relationship is gay because of the physical absence of women more than the actual identities of the lovers.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2026
About queerness in professional sports.
—Penny Abeywardena, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 17 Mar. 2026
For all its public association with queerness, ballet remains largely committed to a frail, wispy femininity and a princely but muscular and explosive masculinity—with the stringent, often punishing body-shape standards to match.
—Chloe Angyal, Time, 9 Mar. 2026
Where queerness was not demonized, as some of the models were drag queens?
—Bryan Barcena, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
Narratives by Black and Brown writers, stories shaped by queerness, and accounts informed by feminist critique now regularly find a place on bookstore shelves.
—Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026
Now there are cool churches who accept queerness and don’t paint it as this horrific sin.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2026
The music, dialect, sense of humour, and resourcefulness often associated with this particular island in the North Atlantic feel intertwined with their queerness.
—Hazlitt, 4 Feb. 2026
Many entries in the genre exist in the uncanny valley between heterosexuality and queerness, where a relationship is gay because of the physical absence of women more than the actual identities of the lovers.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2026
About queerness in professional sports.
—Penny Abeywardena, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for queerness
Noun
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The symptoms of our darkest cultural sicknesses become visible.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Mar. 2026
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Chee grimaces in pain from his ghost sickness wounds, and Manuelito notices.—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Standing in my kitchen decades later, looking at the text message, the same feeling of nausea washed over me.—
Dawn Lerman,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2026
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Still, side effects such as nausea, vomiting and constipation were reported in more than 70% of those who took the higher dose of Wegovy, compared to more than 60% taking the lower dose and about 43% taking a dummy medication, the study showed.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Queerness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queerness. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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