Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned;
- Example: "she liked the old cottage its quaintness was appealing";
2.
strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned;
- Example: "some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Quaintness \Quaint"ness\, n.
The quality of being quaint. --Pope.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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"