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Quaintness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Cunning; craftiness.

n. Skill, artfulness.

n. Primness, fastidiousness, preciousness.

n. The state or fact of being quaint; having old-fashioned charm.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality of being quaint.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The quality of being quaint.

n. Fancifulness; oddity; whimsicality; queerness; especially, odd, old-fashioned appearance or manner.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned

n. strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned

Word Usage

"My paternal grandfather and his family were native Gaelic speakers (from the west coast mainland north of Skye) and his parents spoke only very little English; my grandfather and a number of his siblingsmade it their business to become fluent in English - cultural quaintness is all very well, but they had a living to make."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

old-fashionedness unfamiliarity strangeness

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

piquancy originality terseness picturesqueness freshness