quaintness

2 definitions found

quaintness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Quaintness \Quaint"ness\, n.
     The quality of being quaint. --Pope.
     [1913 Webster]

quaintness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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"