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quaintness
quaint Q0011600 (kwānt)adj. quaint·er, quaint·est 1. Charmingly odd, especially in an old-fashioned way: "Sarah Orne Jewett ... was dismissed by one critic as merely a New England old maid who wrote quaint, plotless sketches of late 19th-century coastal Maine" (James McManus).2. Archaic Unfamiliar or unusual in character; strange: quaint dialect words.3. Archaic Cleverly made or done.
[Middle English queinte, cointe, clever, cunning, peculiar, from Old French, clever, from Latin cognitus, past participle of cognōscere, to learn; see cognition.]
quaint′ly adv.quaint′ness n.Thesaurus| Noun | 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 | | 2. | quaintness - strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned; "some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness"strangeness, unfamiliarity - unusualness as a consequence of not being well known |
Translationsquaint (kweint) adjective pleasantly odd or strange, especially because of being old-fashioned. quaint customs. (尤指因過時而顯得)奇特的，古趣盎然的 古怪的，离奇有趣的 ˈquaintly adverb 古趣盎然地 古怪地，古雅别致 ˈquaintness noun 古趣盎然 古怪，离奇有趣
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