genderqueerness means the quality or state of being genderqueer. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 83 out of 100.
Why “genderqueerness” is a great word
GENDERQUEERNESS — [Noun] The quality or state of being genderqueer, denoting a gender identity that is not exclusively masculine or feminine. From genderqueer (a compound of gender and queer, the latter in its sense of "non-normative") + the suffix -ness (denoting a state or quality). Unlike androgyny, which describes a surface blend of masculine and feminine aesthetics, or transgender, a broad umbrella for identities differing from sex assigned at birth, genderqueerness centers on an internal cartography that deliberately charts outside the continent of the binary. It is the quiet refusal of a checkbox, the profound relief of a pronoun that fits like a worn-in sweater, and the deliberate cultivation of a self in the fertile, uncharted soil between society's two tidy plots—an identity forged not from lack, but from an abundance the old language cannot yet hold.
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- The quality or state of being genderqueer.“One outcome of the idea of fluid masculinity and femininity is the notion of genderqueerness.”