quaintness
英 [kweɪntnəs] 美 [kweɪntnəs]

n.

离奇有趣，古怪的事物；

英英释义

quaintness[ kweintnis ]

• n.
  • the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned

    "she liked the old cottage"; "its quaintness was appealing"

  • strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned

    "some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness"

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. But, in spite of their quaintness, a little study revealed that the old reading books have many redeeming features.
   可是，只要稍加研究就不难发现，老书尽管古怪，却包含着不少优点。

权威例句

Quaintness
Quaintness
The unbearable quaintness of neurology
“QUAINTNESS” IN PAULINE SMITH: OBSERVATIONS ON HER STYLE AND DIALOGUE
The quaintness of the U.S. intelligence community: Its origin, theory, and problems
The color of quaintness: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, black song, and American union
The Quaintness-and Usefulness-of the Old Chinese Traditions: The Yellow Jacket and Lady Precious Stream
'Directness, quaintness and squalor'. Aspects of translation and transformation in Franco Leoni's Opera L'Oracolo
Citizenship and Arbitrary Law-Making: On the Quaintness of Non-national Disenfranchisement
On the Unique Interpretation of the Aesthetic Category of ‘Pursuit of Quaintness' by Su Shi and Hui Hong