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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"