old-timeyness

English

Etymology

From old-timey +‎ -ness.

Noun

old-timeyness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being old-timey.
   • 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., published 1896 November 11, page 25, column 2:

     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.

   • 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 Times, volume XX, number 3645, Minneapolis, Minn., page 8, column 4:

     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 becoming background to the face and head, enhancing the delicacy of one’^[sic] features. 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.

   • 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, part 2 (Oklahoma), page 115:

     In less time than it takes to bake a cake, Mary Agnes Taggart Hall was expunged from the human record. She ceased to exist. 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.