different between rarity vs queerness

English

Etymology

rare +? -ity, borrowed from Middle French rarité, from Latin r?rit?s; compare French rareté. See also rare.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????.??.t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????.?.ti/

Noun

rarity (plural rarities)

1. A measure of the scarcity of an object.
2. (chemistry, of a gas) Thinness; the property of having low density
4. A rare object.

Synonyms

• (measure of the scarcity): rareness; see also Thesaurus:rareness
• (having low density): subtlety
• (rare object): hen's tooth; see also Thesaurus:rarity

Related terms

• rare
• rarely

Translations

References

• rarity at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

From queer +? -ness.

Noun

queerness (countable and uncountable, plural queernesses)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being queer or odd.
2. (countable) Something queer; an oddity.
3. (uncountable) The quality of being queer, in the sense of not conforming to sexual or gender norms.

Synonyms

• (all): queerhood
• (state of being odd): abnormality, oddness, weirdness; see also Thesaurus:strangeness
• (an oddity): deviance, irregularity, outlier; see also Thesaurus:anomaly
• (state of not conforming to sexual norms): nonheterosexuality

Hyponyms

• (state of not conforming to sexual norms): gayness, homosexuality

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