Hypertext Webster Gateway: "quaintness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Quaintness \Quaint"ness\, n.
The quality of being quaint. --Pope.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
quaintness
n 1: the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned; "she liked
the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing"
2: strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned; "some
words in her dialect had a charming quaintness"
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