Noun

(-)

State of being a guy

* {{quote-news, year=1988, date=December 16, author=Michael Miner, title=The Candidate of Cool; Common Ground: George and Mikhail, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=Here's what he would have brought to City Hall: "Juicy quotes, comedy, regular guyness , and an infinitely greater understanding of the executive branch of government operations." }}

* {{quote-news, year=2004, date=October 8, author=Ted McClelland, title=Foul-Weather Dems, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=Kerry impugned his own manhood in the Badger State by referring to the Green Bay Packers' stadium as "Lambert Field" and couldn't restore his guyness there by cramming for the debate in Spring Green, Frank Lloyd Wright's old stomping grounds. }}

Noun

(en-noun)

(countable) The state of being gay (cheerful).

(uncountable) The state of being gay (homosexual).

* 2002 , Corinne Squire, Lines of Narrative: Psychosocial Perspectives , page 56:

Parents often report this as one of their biggest fears upon hearing that their child is gay: assuming that gayness disenables reproduction.

* 2011 , Angel Costello, I Died a Little Every Night , page 192:

the second thing she noticed about Meghan was she always wore this rainbow colored bracelet. Which apparently people in the gay world new(SIC) that rainbow indicated a sense of gayness.