What is the meaning of quaintness?

noun

  • The quality of being quaint and old-fashioned.
    • usage: "she liked the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing"
  • Strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned.
    • usage: "some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness"
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