Quaintness Definition & Meaning

quaintness
noun
  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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