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
In other words, Reed hasn’t just written a novel about social change and family life, queerness and faith.
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Stephanie Burt, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
Mishima’s Forbidden Colors really is one of the greatest novels about queerness ever written.
—Jeremy O. Harris, Vanity Fair, 1 Apr. 2026
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.
—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
Stephanie Burt, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
Mishima’s Forbidden Colors really is one of the greatest novels about queerness ever written.
—Jeremy O. Harris, Vanity Fair, 1 Apr. 2026
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for queerness
Noun
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His raging sickness is realistically captured under James Bridges’ character-sensitive direction.—
Duane Byrge,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Apr. 2026
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Cornwell makes the sickness more literal still.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Symptoms of a hepatoblastoma can include a lump in the abdomen, swelling in the abdomen, pain in the abdomen, unexplained weight loss, loss of appetite, and nausea and vomiting.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Similar to other GLP-1s, the most common side effects of Foundayo are gastrointestinal in nature, including nausea, constipation, diarrhea, vomiting, indigestion, stomach pain, headache, swollen belly, fatigue, belching, heartburn, gas and hair loss.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
2 Apr. 2026
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