Usage of "queerness" | TermGallery

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A strange attitude or habit.

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A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex.

homossexualidade

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Examples for "homosexuality"

Countries that have most recently decriminalised homosexuality included Botswana, Angola and India. 
 Reuters 

He's an absolute wrong 'un when it comes to homosexuality as well. 
 The South African 

This bill would prevent teachers from teaching about homosexuality in public schools. 
 Wired 

China decriminalized homosexuality in 1997, but does still not allow gay marriage. 
 Reuters 

Giving minors information about homosexuality has been illegal in Russia since 2013. 
 The Guardian 

Her good spirits and gayness created a happy mood in the nation. 
 Our Legal Heritage: The First Thousand Years: 600 - 1600 / King ... 

The dancers, however, outshone them all in the gayness of their costume. 
 Mark Seaworth 

For instance: have you ever noticed how gayness and high intelligence are interlinked?' 
 The genesis secret 

There was a gayness and gallantry in that part of it. 
 Romance 

It's that shotgun that will have you worried, not his gayness. 
 The Guardian 

Commentators have also pointed to traces of homoeroticism in the work. 
 The Guardian 

Our next show that we're working on has less masturbation and less teenage homoeroticism. 
 The new yorker 

Then perhaps you'll feel that homoeroticism isn't a question of being, but rather of becoming. 
 Self's punishment 

There is also some consideration of good-old English homoeroticism. 
 The Irish Times 

It was an unforgivable remark; Breton was anxious that he was homosexual, and homoeroticism was firmly forbidden in surrealist dreams. 
 The Guardian 

Usage of queerness in inglês

The queerness of the situation and the reply, made Mrs. Haggert laugh. 
 The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition 

The queerness of the situation and the reply, made Mrs. Landys-Haggert laugh. 
 Plain Tales from the Hills 

The flash of queerness was accompanied by a sense of irreparable disaster. 
 Mary Olivier: a Life 

But that is not the Hawaiian queerness I started out to tell. 
 The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii 

That'd be a way of accounting for your queerness, more or less. 
 Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith 

She didn't understand her reaction to that; it was part of her queerness. 
 The Gods Themselves 

Her sense of the queerness of it all was almost hysterical. 
 Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life 

Susan did not puzzle over the queerness of this abrupt question. 
 Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise 

Then he came a step forward, and the ruddy lights and queerness vanished. 
 In the Days of the Comet 

Patsy, her tender second novel, revolves around queerness and generational trauma. 
 The Guardian 

Perhaps five per cent or so above your average of queerness. 
 Mr. Prohack 

The queerness was, such a figure being associated with classic youth. 
 Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 

As it was, his queerness gave them a sort of point. 
 The Belfry 

But he took a kind of pride in the queerness of his name. 
 Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels 

As to his-his queerness, well, there's always something funny in everybody. 
 The Lodger 

His little shop in the Jamaliyah Quarter is a perfect gem of Nilotic queerness. 
 Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volu... 