quaintness
- n the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned; its quaintness was appealing"
- n strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned
some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness
- Comforting too is the cozy quaintness of Grisham's little world.
- Even when cultural arbiters like Hollywood pay tribute to Indiana, it's usually couched in quaintness.
- Along the edge of the mothering sea stand colonial cottages reaped from the wasted fields of the American Revolution and threshed into 20th century quaintness.