Word Finder - curiosity

definition

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

synonyms

• inquisitiveness

definition

A unique or extraordinary object which arouses interest.

example

He put the strangely shaped rock in his curiosity cabinet.

definition

Careful, delicate construction; fine workmanship, delicacy of building.

She waited a moment and then curiosity got the better of her.

It was done for curiosity's sake.

There were many curiosity shops on the street.

He leaned forward, curiosity growing.

Is your fit of curiosity satisfied, or do you have some more questions?

He leaned forward, curiosity flaring in his tanzanite eyes.

Dean could tell his stepfather's curiosity was at a peak.

There should be enough material here to merit all readers' curiosity!

People stare at her with varying looks of curiosity and intensity.

She could have left then, and might have if curiosity hadn't gotten the best of her.

They were curiosity seekers.

Sometimes from curiosity he went to the ministrations of anabaptists, 2 to hear the preaching of peasants and artisans.

He hadn't been there in years, but the old memory had awakened a curiosity.

He was in his chair, trying to control his curiosity, but she couldn't let it rest at that.

Too many sites rely on visitors' burning curiosity to explore and figure it out.

My friends did all they could to excite my curiosity by hints and half-spelled sentences which they pretended to break off in the nick of time.

Her father's collection of weapons had been a source of curiosity for as long as she could remember.

She turned and hurried up the stairs as Donnie stood by the table, torn between curiosity and following his mother.

The stage came to a halt in front of the station, and people drifted by, satisfying their curiosity about its occupants.

His curiosity satisfied and the hunt over, he was ready to leave the noise of the club for the peace of his condo.

You can't find more action than that caused by the curiosity of busy toddlers ages 18 to 36 months.

Morbid curiosity drew her from the gutter to the highway.

Unable to contain her curiosity any longer, she pounced on Carmen before she could get out of the kitchen.

As tired as Dean was, he still felt a pang of curiosity about the life of this long-ago prostitute.

She stirred his intense curiosity, like only the unknown could.

At Breda he enlisted as a volunteer, and the first and only pay which he accepted he kept as a curiosity through life.

And passing people who looked after him with curiosity, he entered the porch of the Emperor's house.

She opened the door and contained her curiosity until he led Ed inside.

Stronger than his curiosity was the knowledge that he wanted nothing to do with whatever Jonny was planning, no doubt against the White God, his sworn enemy.

Her brow furrowed in guarded curiosity as he stared at her.

The youth glared at him for a long moment, then unfolded his arms, curiosity winning over.

Sonya was there too, tormented by curiosity as to what Prince Andrew and Natasha were talking about.

They did not smile nor did they frown, or show either fear or surprise or curiosity or friendliness.

Anatole kissed the old man, and looked at him with curiosity and perfect composure, waiting for a display of the eccentricities his father had told him to expect.

Two vegetable products, the " balsam bog " (Bolas glebaria) and the " tussock grass " (Dactylis caespitosa) have been objects of curiosity and interest ever since the first accounts of the islands were given.

This expedition was in fulfilment of a design which he had formed, when, during his former travels in the East, his curiosity had been greatly excited by the ruins of Nimrud on the Tigris, and by the great mound of Kuyunjik, near Mosul, already partly excavated by Botta.

They rode through the village of Rykonty, past tethered French hussar horses, past sentinels and men who saluted their colonel and stared with curiosity at a Russian uniform, and came out at the other end of the village.

The French followed him with astonishment in their eyes chiefly because Pierre, unlike all the other Russians who gazed at the French with fear and curiosity, paid no attention to them.

He remembered a general impression of the misfortunes and sufferings of people and of being worried by the curiosity of officers and generals who questioned him, he also remembered his difficulty in procuring a conveyance and horses, and above all he remembered his incapacity to think and feel all that time.

The puzzled curiosity on the features of Darkyn's mate made Deidre wonder if the girl fully understood what had happened.

They watched instead with curiosity.

Curiosity got the better of him and later, on a trip to Philadelphia, he checked the city's library.

While the republics of Italy, and above all the state of Venice, were engaged in distributing the rich products of India and the Far East over the Western world, it was impossible that motives of curiosity, as well as a desire of commercial advantage, should not be awakened to such a degree as to impel some of the merchants to visit those remote lands.

Almost all of them stared with naive, childlike curiosity at Pierre's white hat and green swallow-tail coat.

Still, we sometimes found ourselves perusing a report out of pure curiosity.

He found himself looked upon with curiosity as a precocious phenomenon, a "made man," an intellectual machine set to grind certain tunes.

The untiring old poet was steadily writing on, and by 1886 he had another collection of lyrics ready, Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, &c.; his eyes troubled him, but his memory and his intellectual curiosity were as vivid as ever.

Dean asked, his curiosity overcoming his desire to distance himself from this woman who was making him increasingly uncomfortable.

Dean asked, out of no more than a mild curiosity.

While the case might be officially closed, Dean felt an obliga­tion to Randy Byrne, as well as his own curiosity, to follow up the March fourth Whitney Motel incident.