Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

neuroqueerness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: neu-ro-queer-ness
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The state or quality of being neuroqueer.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"For Rekers and Lovaas, the etiologies of childhood gender variance or autism were insignificant, for they believed that modifying social conditions by means of behavioral control would mask any traces of neuroqueerness."
"Neuroqueer(ness) represents an array of relationships between neurology and queerness including being both neurodivergent and queer, actively choosing to embody one’s neurodivergence, or queering ones cognitive processes (Walker, 2015)."
"Neuroqueerness unsettles deficit discourses of autism and dis/ability, which reduce the storying of varied individual experiences into a single clinical narrative."

Etymology

From neuroqueer + -ness.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: neuroqueer

Usage

Uncountable

Synonyms

neuroqueer

Questions

What does neuroqueerness mean?: The state or quality of being neuroqueer.
Where does neuroqueerness come from?: From neuroqueer + -ness.

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