"quaintness" in the noun sense
1. quaintness
the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned its quaintness was appealing"
"she liked the old cottage
2. quaintness
strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned
"some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness"
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