curiosity
IPA: kjʊriˈɑsʌti
noun
- (uncountable) Inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask and learn about things by asking questions, investigating, or exploring.
- A unique or extraordinary object which arouses interest.
- (obsolete) Careful, delicate construction; fine workmanship, delicacy of building.
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Examples of "curiosity" in Sentences
- Thanks for placating my curiosity.
- Curiosity is the beginning of learning.
- Eavesdrops to the door out of curiosity.
- It serves to satisfy the curiosity of the OP.
- The motivation to make the film was curiosity.
- Hiding it by blanking will pique the curiosity of some.
- The best method is not to entertain a morbid curiosity.
- It was curiosity and cultural intrigue that pulled me in.
- It doesn't satisfy the scientific curiosity of the reader.
- As a genuine antediluvian he is a great curiosity, but a sideshow curiosity.
- The word curiosity is related to the words cure, care, careful, and accuracy.
- But Washington was prompted to ask: “Pray, would not the word curiosity answer as well?”
- This curiosity is the reason I found myself in the woods of northern Maryland, along with a couple hundred strangers, trying to make fire with sticks.
- In a quarter-page interview in Business 2.0, Diller mentions the word curiosity six times, and at his first mention of the word he ties the effectiveness of curiosity to the fusion of openness and order—trait curiosity.
- This is the true ground to assign for the genuine scientific passion, however manifested, and for culture, viewed simply as a fruit of this passion; and it is a worthy ground, even tho we let the term curiosity stand to describe it.
- This is the true ground to assign for the genuine scientific passion, however manifested, and for culture, viewed simply as a fruit of this passion; and it is a worthy ground, even though we let the term curiosity stand to describe it.
- In turning now more particularly to the work, or rather compilation, of Dr. Bisset Hawkins, let us see whether we cannot discover among what he terms "marks of haste" in getting it up for "the curiosity of the public" (_curiosity_, Dr. Hawkins!), some omissions of a very important nature on the subject of a disease respecting which, we presume, he wished to enlighten the public.