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

Type of: old-fashionedness, strangeness, unfamiliarity