curiosity

[Cu`ri*os·i*ty]

Curiosity is the urge you feel to know more about something. If you find a diary in a coffee shop, curiosity will make you want to look inside but respect for the writer's privacy may convince you not to.

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The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.

Noun
something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting

Noun
a state in which you want to learn more about something


n.
The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.

n.
Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness.

n.
That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention.


Curiosity

Cu`ri*os"i*ty (k?`r?-?s"?-t?), n.; pl. Curiosities (-tz). [OE. curiouste, curiosite, OF. curioset'82, curiosit'82, F. curiosit, fr. L. curiositas, fr. curiosus. See Currious, and cf. Curio.] 1. The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration. [Obs.] Bacon.
When thou wast in thy gilt and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much curiosity.
A screen accurately cut in tapiary work . . . with great curiosity.
2. Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness. Milton. 3. That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention.
We took a ramble together to see the curiosities of this great town.
There hath been practiced also a curiosity, to set a tree upon the north side of a wall, and, at a little hieght, to draw it through the wall, etc.

The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.

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Usage Examples

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

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Other Usage Examples

I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

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