Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun quaintness

2 senses of quaintness

Sense 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)

Sense 2
quaintness -- (strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned; "some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness")
       => unfamiliarity, strangeness -- (unusualness as a consequence of not being well known)