Quaintness

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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"