Curiosity

Quick meaning: Curiosity is a noun meaning (uncountable) Inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask and learn about things by asking questions, investigating, or exploring.

Meaning

(uncountable) Inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask and learn about things by asking questions, investigating, or exploring.

More Meanings

1. A unique or extraordinary object which arouses interest.
2. (obsolete) Careful, delicate construction; fine workmanship, delicacy of building.

Example Sentences

He put the strangely shaped rock in his curiosity cabinet.

[The room] was adorned with a great number of nicknacks and curiosities, which might have engaged the attention of a virtuoso.

The loss of his tye-periwig and laced hat, which were curiosities of the kind, did not at all contribute to the improvement of the picture […].

They learn that reading, besides being something one does at school, is also something one can do on one's own, for fun, to satisfy curiosity, or even to "expand one's horizons.”

Word Forms

• curiosities

Synonyms for curiosity

Depending on context, synonyms include inquisitiveness, oddity, peculiarity, oddment, curio, rarity.

Antonyms for curiosity

Common opposites include ignorance.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include curio, rarity, peculiarity, oddment, wonder, oddity.

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