quaintness
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned
she liked the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing
Types & categories
- old-fashionedness hypernym
Related & opposite
- old-time derivation
Sense 2 noun
strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned
some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness
Types & categories
- unfamiliarity hypernym
Related & opposite
- quaint derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | old-time |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | old-fashionedness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | quaint |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | unfamiliarity |