Meaning of Gayness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state of being gay (colorful or festive); display or dressiness.
   dated, rare, uncountable, usually
2. The state of being gay (cheerful); gaiety.
   countable, dated, rare, usually
3. The state of being gay (homosexual); homosexuality; demeanor stereotypically representative of it.
   uncountable, usually

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Examples

“And truly, at a short butt, which some men doth use⟳, the peacock feather doth seldom keep⟳ up the shaft either right or level, it is so rough and heavy ; so that many men, which have⟳ taken them up for gayness, hath laid them down again for profit:”

“Let⟳ me ſpeak prowdly: Tell⟳ the Conſtable, ⁠/ We are but Warriors for the working-day: / Our Gayneſſe and our Gilt are all beſmyrcht / With raynie Marching in the painefull field.”

“You cannot blame⟳ their gayness, their queerness, their homosexuality on sudden wealth.”

“Tell⟳ Al Sublette I met a great new pianist called Cecil Taylor, [he] plays like⟳ [Oscar] Peterson gone Classical, fast runs but Brubeck-Stravinsky-Prokofieff chords, a Juilliard classicist—He, like⟳ [James] Baldwin, [is] colored, [and] I think⟳ gay,—Baldwin is gay. I don’t dig⟳ all this gayness.”

“I doubt⟳ very much that their "gay­ness" had any deep sexual roots. I think⟳ it was simply an exotic form⟳ of juvenile delinquency.”

“Those of us who have⟳ been in heterosexual marriages too often have⟳ blamed our gayness on the breakup of the marriage.”

“Were there gay people in the ancient world, or is gayness a uniquely modern category?”

“Their goal was to compel open⟳ legal recognition of their beliefs about sex and gayness as being the law in the United States.”

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