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boxiness en · NOUN

Etymology

From boxy + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The condition of being boxy
    • Instead of the widely sexual beings we have the potential to be, we've been put (and put ourselves) into increasingly shrinking sexual categories. We are brought up to be "homosexual" or "heterosexual." As homosexuals, many of us become "leather queens," "bottoms" or "tops," "chicken queens," "dinge queens," etc. This boxiness makes us more isolated, seemingly foreign, highly specialized and limited sexual beings. 1981 August 8, Bob Collins, “The New Normals”, in Gay Community News, page 5: