quaintness

quaint  (kwnt)

adj. quaint·er, quaint·est

1. Charmingly odd, especially in an old-fashioned way: "Sarah Orne Jewett . . . was dismissed by one critic as merely a New England old maid who wrote quaint, plotless sketches of late 19th-century coastal Maine" (James McManus).

2. Unfamiliar or unusual in character; strange: quaint dialect words. See Synonyms at strange.

3. Cleverly made; artful.

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[Middle English, clever, cunning, peculiar, from Old French queinte, cointe, from Latin cognitus, past participle of cognscere, to learn; see cognition.]

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quaintly adv.

quaintness n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	quaintness - the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned; "she liked the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing" old-fashionedness - the property of being no longer fashionable
	2.	quaintness - strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned; "some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness" strangeness, unfamiliarity - unusualness as a consequence of not being well known

Translations

quaintness [ˈkweɪntnɪs] N

1. (= picturesqueness) [of place, object] → lo pintoresco

2. (= oddness) [of custom, word, idea, question] → lo curioso

quaintness [ˈkweɪntnɪs] n [place, house] → pittoresque m

quaintness

n

(= picturesque nature) → malerischer or idyllischer Anblick; (= old-fashioned charm: of pub, custom, expression) → Urigkeit f

(= oddness) (of idea) → Kuriosität f, → Schnurrigkeit f, → Putzigkeit f; (of nickname) → Originalität f; (of person, way of speaking) → Drolligkeit f