quaintness
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quaint
(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.
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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 |
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Translations
جاذبِيَّة الشّيء لِقِدَمِه
půvab starého
løjerlighed
òaî aî vera sérkennilegur
pôvab starého/starodávneho
tuhaflık
quaintness
[ˈkweɪntnɪs] N1. (= picturesqueness) [of place, object] → lo pintoresco
2. (= oddness) [of custom, word, idea, question] → lo curioso
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
quaintness
n
(= picturesque nature) → malerischer or idyllischer Anblick; (= old-fashioned charm: of pub, custom, expression) → Urigkeit f
(= oddness) (of idea) → Kuriosität f, → Schnurrigkeit f, → Putzigkeit f; (of nickname) → Originalität f; (of person, way of speaking) → Drolligkeit f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
quaint
(kweint) adjective pleasantly odd or strange, especially because of being old-fashioned. quaint customs.
ˈquaintly adverbˈquaintness noun
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