Word Study
quaintness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun quaintness has 2 senses
- quaintness(n = noun.attribute) Array - the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned; "she liked the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing" is a kind of old-fashionedness
- quaintness(n = noun.attribute) Array - strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned; "some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness" is a kind of strangeness, unfamiliarity
Derived form adjective quaint3
Derived form adjective quaint1
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