Associations to the word «Quaintness»

Wiktionary

QUAINTNESS, noun. (obsolete) Cunning; craftiness.

QUAINTNESS, noun. (obsolete) Skill, artfulness.

QUAINTNESS, noun. (obsolete) Primness, fastidiousness, preciousness.

QUAINTNESS, noun. The state or fact of being quaint; having old-fashioned charm.

QUAINTNESS, noun. The quality of being quaint and old-fashioned; "she liked the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing".

QUAINTNESS, noun. Strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned; "some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness".

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