gayness

Other forms of gayness

plural

gaynesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gayness

What does gayness mean?

gayness means "a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex".

How many syllables are in gayness?

gayness has 2 syllables: gay-ness. The stress falls on "gay". In IPA it is /ˈɡeɪnəs/.

What is another word for gayness?

Close synonyms include homosexuality, homosexualism, homoeroticism, queerness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gayness a common word?

gayness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.