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curiosity
[ kyoor-ee-os-i-tee ]
noun
- the desire to learn or know about anything; inquisitiveness:
The lesson provoked their curiosity about the natural world.
She feels that tolerance is fed by knowledge, an open mind, and curiosity about others.
- a curious, rare, or novel thing:
Exhibits on display will include such curiosities as preserved smells, infrared briefcases, and cameras hidden in coats.
- a strange, curious, or interesting quality or feature:
How bankers from Nova Scotia set up in the Caribbean in the 1880s is a curiosity of financial history.
One of the human brain's many curiosities is its tendency to see faces in abstract shapes.
- Archaic. carefulness; fastidiousness.
curiosity
/ ˌʊəɪˈɒɪɪ /
noun
- an eager desire to know; inquisitiveness
- the quality of being curious; strangeness
- ( as modifier )
the ring had curiosity value only
- something strange or fascinating
- a rare or strange object; curio
- obsolete.fastidiousness
Other 51Թ Forms
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of curiosity1
Idioms and Phrases
- curiosity killed the cat, being too inquisitive is dangerous:
I'd really like to know what's going on in the boss's head, but then, curiosity killed the cat.
Example Sentences
It’s that passion, alongside an innate curiosity about the power of acting, that propels Poulter.
But wrap it in chocolate and curiosity, history and danger.
A fourth-generation Angeleno, Mantle was born to teenage parents, an only child nurtured by an extended family that encouraged curiosity and independence.
Keep these traits in check the next time you find yourself in a horror film scenario: curiosity—the genre’s original sin—and dissatisfaction, its slipperier cousin.
I’ve never paid double digits for a single container of strawberries, but curiosity got the best of me.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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