Definition of "quaintness" []

• Cunning; craftiness. (noun)
• Skill, artfulness. (noun)
• Primness, fastidiousness, preciousness. (noun)
• The state or fact of being quaint; having old-fashioned charm. (noun)

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• "There's a certain quaintness to the whole thing, like owning a rotary telephone."
• "My paternal grandfather and his family were native Gaelic speakers (from the west coast mainland north of Skye) and his parents spoke only very little English; my grandfather and a number of his siblingsmade it their business to become fluent in English - cultural quaintness is all very well, but they had a living to make."
• "It was bare to the point of discomfort, and had it not been for a certain quaintness in the shape of the few articles to be seen there, I should have experienced a decided feeling of repulsion, so pronounced was the contrast between this poverty-stricken interior and the polished bearing of its owner."