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Curiosity

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Noun

1. curiosity, wonder

a state in which you want to learn more about something

2. curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity

something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Curiosity

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noun plural -ties
1. 
an eager desire to know; inquisitiveness
2. 
a. 
the quality of being curious; strangeness
b. 
(as modifier)
the ring had curiosity value only
3. 
something strange or fascinating
4. 
a rare or strange object; curio
5. obsolete
fastidiousness

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Curiosity

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nounWord forms: plural ˌcuriˈosities
1. 
a desire to learn or know
2. 
a desire to learn about things that do not properly concern one; inquisitiveness
3. 
anything curious, strange, rare, or novel
4.  Obsolete
the quality of being careful, scrupulous, or fastidious

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Curiosity

see synonyms of curiosity
n. pl. cu·ri·os·i·ties
1. A desire to know or learn.
2. A desire to know about people or things that do not concern one; nosiness.
3. An object that arouses interest, as by being novel or extraordinary: kept the carved bone and displayed it as a curiosity.
4. A strange or odd aspect.
5. Archaic Fastidiousness.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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