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Meaning of "gayness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GAYNESS

gayness  [ˈɡeɪnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GAYNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gayness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GAYNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

gayness

Gay

Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term was originally used to refer to feelings of being "carefree", "happy", or "bright and showy". The term's use as a reference to homosexuality may date as early as the late 19th century, but its use gradually increased in the 20th century. In modern English, gay has come to be used as an adjective, and as a noun, referring to the people, especially to gay males, and the practices and cultures associated with homosexuality. By the end of the 20th century, the word gay was recommended by major LGBT groups and style guides to describe people attracted to members of the same sex. At about the same time, a new, pejorative use became prevalent in some parts of the world. In the Anglosphere, this connotation, among younger speakers, has a derisive meaning equivalent to rubbish or stupid. In this use, the word does not mean "homosexual", so it can be used, for example, to refer to an inanimate object or abstract concept of which one disapproves. This usage can also refer to weakness or unmanliness.

Definition of gayness in the English dictionary

The definition of gayness in the dictionary is the fact or condition of being gay.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GAYNESS


bulkiness
ˈbʌlkɪnɪs
comeliness
ˈkʌmlɪnɪs
craziness
ˈkreɪzɪnɪs
dizziness
ˈdɪzɪnɪs
dryness
ˈdraɪnɪs
finis
ˈfɪnɪs
friendliness
ˈfrɛndlɪnɪs
greyness
ˈɡreɪnɪs
Guinness
ˈɡɪnɪs
happiness
ˈhæpɪnɪs
highness
ˈhaɪnɪs
holiness
ˈhəʊlɪnɪs
laziness
ˈleɪzɪnɪs
loveliness
ˈlʌvlɪnɪs
readiness
ˈrɛdɪnɪs
Tanis
ˈteɪnɪs
timeliness
ˈtaɪmlɪnɪs
titanis
taɪˈteɪnɪs
trustworthiness
ˈtrʌstˌwɜːðɪnɪs
waeness
ˈweɪnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GAYNESS

gay
Gay Gordons
gay-friendly
Gay-Lussac
Gay-Lussac´s law
Gaya
gayal
gaycation
gaydar
Gaye
gayety
gayly
Gayomart
gaysome
gaywings
Gaza
Gaza Strip
gazabo
gazang
gazania

WORDS THAT END LIKE GAYNESS

awayness
business
busyness
cageyness
coyness
dailyness
dopeyness
everydayness
farawayness
glueyness
gooeyness
hokeyness
homeyness
mateyness
sameyness
shyness
slyness
spryness
uppityness
vaginal dryness
wryness

Synonyms and antonyms of gayness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «gayness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GAYNESS

Find out the translation of gayness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gayness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gayness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

gayness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

homosexualidad
570 millions of speakers

English

gayness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

gayness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

gayness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

веселости
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

homossexualidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

gayness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

homosexualité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gayness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schwulsein
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ゲイであること
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

게이 성향
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gayness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gayness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

gayness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

समलिंगीपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gayness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gayness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gejostwa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

веселості
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

homosexualitatea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ευθυμία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gay
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gayness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gayness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gayness

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GAYNESS»

The term «gayness» is normally little used and occupies the 109.770 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GAYNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «gayness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «gayness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gayness

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2 QUOTES WITH «GAYNESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word gayness.
1
Sandra Bernhard
Gayness is a non-issue.
2
Lance Loud
My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GAYNESS»

Discover the use of gayness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gayness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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"He's All Man": Learning Masculinity, Gayness, and Love from ...
Full of insight and wit, this humorous take on Hollywood's principle archtype deconstructs various incarnations of the masculine myth, including cowboys, soldiers, and gangsters, from Brando to Edward G. Robinson.
John M. Clum, 2002
2
Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in ...
By looking at families in which the homosexuality was expressed mostly in males, they felt they had achieved a sample "enriched" for a hypothetical gene for gayness that was maternally inherited. Again, the sample had been picked and ...
Joan Roughgarden, 2004
3
Queer Race: Cultural Interventions in the Racial Politics of ...
This story tells us as much about the meaning of gayness as the meaning of whiteness. This is not to suggest that the meaning of gayness or whiteness is fixed or that the relationship between these two categories is stable; in fact, I illustrate ...
Ian Barnard, 2004
4
Peacocks, Chameleons, Centaurs: Gay Suburbia and the Grammar ...
The gay lifestyler experiences gayness as a noun, and his identity in its most extreme ideal-typical form is expressed in terms of duration, density, and dominance as follows: (1) he has a full- time commitment to the identity that encompasses ...
Wayne Brekhus, 2003
5
Beyond Black and White: New Faces and Voices in U.S. Schools
Gayness,. Multicultural. Education,. and. Community. While public schools have long been viewed by progressive educators as embryonic communities that should engage young people in building a democratic community or mutual support ...
Maxine Seller, Lois Weis, 1997
6
Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratization of Desire
THE. MAINSTREAMING. OF. GAYNESS. An attractive woman slides up to the bar of a trendy night club somewhere (Figure 7.1). A good-looking young man catches her eye, offers to buy her a drink. She accepts, reluctantly, obviously ...
Brian McNair, 2002
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The Meaning of Gay: Interaction, Publicity, and Community ...
While these contradictions can be easily seen socially, I have also speculated that individual gay men may have also moved in, around, and between positions as they worked out the meaning of their gayness. These struggles over possible ...
Todd J. Ormsbee, 2012
8
Same Sex: Debating the Ethics, Science, and Culture of ...
In other words, it is okay for the gay rights movement to give up its dogged adherence to the belief that gayness is an immutable characteristic caused by chromosomes, hormones, irreversibly congested Oedipal complexes, or whatever.
John Corvino, 1999
9
Psychopathology and Social Prejudice
obscure various complex strands of gayness and the way they intersect with other social positions. To paraphrase Butler (1990), one might suggest that it is just as impossible to separate out 'gayness' as gender' from the political and cultural ...
Derek Hook, Gillian Eagle, 2002
10
Thamyris Overcoming Boundaries: Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality.
The Denial ofDahmer's Gayness Most accounts of the Dahmer case that do acknowledge the gayness of some of the men Dahmer murdered, do so in order to emphasize their victimhood (i.e., they are presented as the victims of racist and  ...
Nanny M. W. de Vries, Jan Best

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GAYNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gayness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Podium: In light of gay marriage's victory, coming out of the shadows …
And though my friends and I weren't bullies, we did find it OK to joke about “gayness.” We viewed gays in cartoonish, stereotypical ways. «The Idaho Statesman, Jul 15»
2
Cries of Chicken Little - Arkansas Online
The Chicken Littles of the evangelical Christian right who cry that the sky is falling on our godless tolerance of gayness raise a couple of issues ... «Arkansas Online, Jul 15»
3
Where Does the “Gay Voice” Come From? - Slate Magazine
What's more interesting is how gay men and the larger society in which we live deal with public manifestations of gayness, like voice or ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
4
Egypt's Al-Azhar Slams Gay Marriage
Gayness is not a victory for human rights, it is on the contrary a deterioration, and definitely a crime to humanity, and a distortion of the freedom ... «StepFeed, Jul 15»
5
Marriage Equality Doesn't Mean It's Always Easy to Come Out
This is when my teacher friend explained something very important: There are no secret requirements for gayness, there is no dress code. «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
6
LETTER: Is free speech still 'free' if it can be punished?
... called "the error of assumed essence"; if a person is, say, "gay," this error happens when everything they do is tied to this "gayness.". «Grand Forks Herald, Jul 15»
7
Same-sex marriage not necessarily a harbinger of abortion …
The increased public visibility of gays and the shift in attitudes and laws are making gayness a less-closeted identity than in the past. «Irish Times, Jul 15»
8
No, Queer Women Aren't "Just Experimenting" - BuzzFeed
... already seen the show's queering powers in action: When Lauren Morelli was writing for the first season, she figured out her own gayness). «BuzzFeed News, Jul 15»
9
Which was the best decade to be a man? - Telegraph
... testosterone to be set against the figure-hugging jeans, pastel-tinted T-shirts and a general fetishising of gayness and the female-in-the-male. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
10
Egypt's clerics condemn gay marriage law
Gayness is not a victory to human rights, it is on the contrary a deterioration, and definitely a crime to humanity, and a distortion of the freedom ... «Daily News Egypt, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Gayness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/gayness>. Apr 2024 ».
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