“queerness”

After reading “A jury of her peers” by Susana Glaspeal I came across a word that got my eye and it was”queerness” or “queer” which I was assuming that it had something to do with homosexuals but after finding out what it really meant I was really shook. Acrroding to Webster dictionary the word means “absorbed or interested to an extreme or unreasonable degree”  and this really got my interest in have a lot of words that we use today many have turned into some kind of slag, that word really holds a lot of meaning to many people and controversy as well. I now feel more knowledgable in the words I use and hear there for I feel accomplish.