curiousness
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cu·ri·ous
(kyo͝or′ē-əs)adj.
1. Eager to learn more: curious investigators; a trapdoor that made me curious.
2. Unduly inquisitive; prying: a curious neighbor always looking over the fence.
3. Arousing interest because of novelty or strangeness: a curious fact.
4. Archaic
a. Accomplished with skill or ingenuity.
b. Extremely careful; scrupulous or fastidious.
[Middle English, from Old French curios, from Latin cūriōsus, careful, inquisitive, from cūra, care; see cure.]
cu′ri·ous·ly adv.
cu′ri·ous·ness n.
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Noun | 1. | curiousness - a state of active curiosity |
2. | curiousness - the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner" quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare |
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curiousness
noun1. Mental acquisitiveness:
Idiom: thirst for knowledge.
2. Undue interest in the affairs of others:
Informal: nosiness, snoopiness.
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