quaintness
quaint·ness
noun
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”
Origin
From quaint + -ness.
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