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Перевод: quaintness

[существительное]
причудливость ; затейливость ; эксцентричность

Тезаурус:

1. Though he professes scorn for the outmoded quaintness of things Victorian, Philip's conception of life is modelled largely on the Victorian novel and its Edwardian successors.
2. Whatever may be its points of similarity to, or difference from, other countries' villages as social institutions, it has very special qualities of picturesqueness, not of course to be confused with quaintness.
3. He passed his life in a cacophony of amusement at the quaintness of the human race.
4. Read it in our way and we shall merely be, as Lewis says in the preface to The Discarded Image , like "travellers who carry their resolute Englishry with them all over the Continent, mix only with other English tourists, enjoy all they see for its "quaintness" and have no wish to realise what those ways of life, those churches, those vineyards mean to the natives".
5. When asked what she thinks of this, Mrs Li laughs at the quaintness of the question.
6. It was, of course, the purchasers business to employ a surveyor, whether a house or a boat was in question, and Pinkie would not be offering Dreadnought with any kind of guarantee as to soundness, only, after all, as to quaintness.
7. The young society was not drawn to quaintness, or studiousness, or absence of mind in the outfield.
8. H.G. Wells describes how "Spectators would fall a-talking of the fashionableness of bicycling - how judges and stock-brokers and actresses, and, in fact all the best people rode - and how that it was often the fancy of such great folk to shun the big hotels and seek, incognito, the cosy quaintness of village life."
9. Much of its picturesque quaintness had gone, but it still had a deep attraction for him.