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
As fear and prejudice take hold, Lidia and her family must navigate the growing hysteria surrounding queerness, disease and desire in a deeply patriarchal society.
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Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
Think of the economic arrangement between William and Eugene in Queer or the generational attitudes at play when Elio’s father confesses his own potential queerness to him in Call Me By Your Name.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 10 Oct. 2025
The title In Between evokes fluidity and transition, which naturally brings to mind queerness.
—Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2025
McQuaid is set to continue his exploration of the intersection of queerness and genre with his next film.
—William Earl, Variety, 21 Sep. 2025
The new musical Saturday Church traverses both contexts, following a sensitive Black teenager (played by Bryson Battle) who’s torn between his love of church and his burgeoning understanding of his queerness.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
The children of this era would go on to lead the next affective era in the form of the 1960s—which in many ways were a fight against this boredom, a call to reclaim the excitement of communalism, of revolution, of queerness and chaos.
—P.e. Moskowitz
september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
Think of the economic arrangement between William and Eugene in Queer or the generational attitudes at play when Elio’s father confesses his own potential queerness to him in Call Me By Your Name.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 10 Oct. 2025
The title In Between evokes fluidity and transition, which naturally brings to mind queerness.
—Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2025
McQuaid is set to continue his exploration of the intersection of queerness and genre with his next film.
—William Earl, Variety, 21 Sep. 2025
The new musical Saturday Church traverses both contexts, following a sensitive Black teenager (played by Bryson Battle) who’s torn between his love of church and his burgeoning understanding of his queerness.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
The children of this era would go on to lead the next affective era in the form of the 1960s—which in many ways were a fight against this boredom, a call to reclaim the excitement of communalism, of revolution, of queerness and chaos.
—P.e. Moskowitz
september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for queerness
Noun
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For the severely malnourished, simply starting to eat normal meals again can cause sickness—even death.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
18 Oct. 2025
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Within the mud, squalor and sickness of the contraband camps, so too came the casting away of the former body and an emergence of a fuller kind of selfhood.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This syndrome causes nausea, diarrhea, sweating, and flushing after eating.—
Carrie Madormo,
Health,
18 Oct. 2025
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Eye irritation or redness, fever, chills, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, sneezing, shortness of breath, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headaches, diarrhea, nausea or vomiting or rash.—
Katie Wiseman,
IndyStar,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Queerness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queerness. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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