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old-timeyness

old-timeyness noun: the quality of being old-timey.

Noun

old-timeyness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being old-timey.
    • The quaint old-timeyness of the first movement soon developed into all Saint Saëns’ weird power, and gave the pianist an opportunity to show both his tremendous force and his delicate execution.1896 November 8, Pittsburgh Post, quotee, “Sieveking in Pittsburg”, in Musical Courier. A Weekly Journal Devoted to Music and the Music Trades., volume XXXIII, number 20 (whole 871), New York, N.Y....
    • The hat does not roll up again decidedly as the Shepherdess modes with drooping brims did last season, but sweeps away from the temples gracefully and naturally in the most interesting but artificial frankness. Then it drops abruptly at the back and the black velvet lining to the brim is the most...1899 September 24, “Mrs. Fiske’s Pretty Hat: Part It Played in Creating a New Role. The Noted Actress Views Life From the Tail of Her Eye. Looks Slyly Saucy in Spite of Herself.”, in The Sunday...

Examples of old-timeyness in a sentence

  • This gives to the wearer an indescribable air of old-timeyness, gentleness, frailty, but is very cleverly counterbalanced by the naughty, naughty downward swoop of that forward brim.1899 September 24, “Mrs. Fiske’s Pretty Hat: Part It Played in Creating a New Role. The Noted Actress Views Life From the Tail of Her Eye....
  • I’d hated my full name, the old-timeyness of it, the way saying Ag-nes lifted the back of my throat like I was going to cough up a hairball, the way my initials spelled M.A.T.H.2015, Mary Anna King, “Things You Can Tell Just by Looking”, in Bastards: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN...

Origin of old-timeyness

From old-timey + -ness.

Questions about old-timeyness

What does old-timeyness mean?
Old-timeyness means the quality of being old-timey.
How do you use old-timeyness in a sentence?
This gives to the wearer an indescribable air of old-timeyness, gentleness, frailty, but is very cleverly counterbalanced by the naughty, naughty downward swoop of that forward brim.
What part of speech is old-timeyness?
Old-timeyness is a noun.

Words near old-timeyness in the dictionary

  1. old-timer
  2. old-timer's disease
  3. old-timers
  4. old-timers' disease
  5. old-timey
  6. old-timeyness
  7. old-timier
  8. old-timiest
  9. old-timy
  10. old-wifish
  11. old-wivish

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