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Noun quaintness has 2 senses
  1. quaintness - the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned; "she liked the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing"
    --1 is a kind of     old-fashionedness
  2. quaintness - strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned; "some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness"
    --2 is a kind of     unfamiliarity, strangeness
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