Definition of "quaintness"

quaintness

/ˈkweɪntnəs/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural quaintnesses
1. (obsolete) Cunning; craftiness.
2. (obsolete) Skill, artfulness.
3. (obsolete) Primness, fastidiousness, preciousness.
  Quotations
  As for good Terence, I allow the quaintnesse [translating mignardise] and grace of his Latine tongue, and judge him wonderfull conceited and apt […].
  1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 10, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]
4. The state or fact of being quaint; having old-fashioned charm.