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Quaintness

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Noun

1. quaintness

the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned

Example Sentences:
'she liked the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing'

2. quaintness

strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned

Example Sentences:
'some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Quaintness

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adjective
1. 
attractively unusual, esp in an old-fashioned style
a quaint village
2. 
odd, peculiar, or inappropriate
a quaint sense of duty

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Quaintness

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adjective
1.  Obsolete
clever or skilled
2.  Rare
wrought with skill; ingenious
3. 
unusual or old-fashioned in a pleasing way
4. 
singular; unusual; curious
5. 
fanciful; whimsical

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Quaintness

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adj. quaint·er, quaint·est
1. Charmingly odd, especially in an old-fashioned way: "Sarah Orne Jewett ... was dismissed by one critic as merely a New England old maid who wrote quaint, plotless sketches of late 19th-century coastal Maine" (James McManus).
2. Archaic Unfamiliar or unusual in character; strange: quaint dialect words.
3. Archaic Cleverly made or done.

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