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- DictionaryCu·ri·os·i·ty/ˌkyo͝orēˈäsədē/
noun
- 1. a strong desire to know or learn something: "filled with curiosity, she peered through the window"
- 2. a strange or unusual object or fact: "he showed them some of the curiosities of the house"
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. Curiosity is the state of being curious: inquisitive, wondering, ready to poke around and figure something out.
4 days ago · 1. uncountable noun. Curiosity is a desire to know about something. Ryle accepted more out of curiosity than anything else. ...an enthusiasm and genuine curiosity about the past. To satisfy our own curiosity we traveled to Baltimore. 2. countable noun. A curiosity is something that is unusual, interesting, and fairly rare.
curiosity killed the cat. (saying) used to tell somebody not to ask questions or try to find out about things that do not involve them. Definition of curiosity noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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 feeling of wanting to know or learn about something: My curiosity got the better of me and I opened the envelope. Just out of curiosity, how did you get my address? curiosity noun (STRANGE THING) something strange or unusual. (Definition of curiosity from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of curiosity
3 days ago · ( uncountable) Inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask and learn about things by asking questions, investigating, or exploring. [from 17th c.] Synonym: inquisitiveness. Antonym: ignorance. A unique or extraordinary object which arouses interest. [from 17th c.] He put the strangely shaped rock in his curiosity cabinet.
The term curiosity can also denote the behavior, characteristic, or emotion of being curious, in regard to the desire to gain knowledge or information. Curiosity as a behavior and emotion is the driving force behind human development, such as progress in science, language, and industry.
