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queer

view main entry for queeradjective  /kwɪə(r)/ 

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queerly

adverb

queerness

noun [uncountable]
queerness noun [uncountable]The quality of being different or strange: singularity, otherness, incongruity, inconsistency, peculiarity, rarity, differentiation, strangeness, uniqueness, oddness

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