curiosity
noun
us
Meaning of curiosity in English
curiosity | Intermediate English
curiosity
noun
us
curiosity noun (INTEREST)
curiosity noun (STRANGE OBJECT)
The museum had a collection of mummies and Egyptian curiosities.
Examples of curiosity
curiosity
The girl said she did it out of curiosity about his past scandals.
From New York Post
Anyone with a curiosity can research and form an opinion about the case, confirming media reports against the available facts.
From Huffington Post
Yet it's the question that stimulates curiosity; being told an answer quells curiosity before it can even get going.
From TIME
It was frogs and newts that opened my mind to scientific inquiry and fed an insatiable curiosity with the world around me.
From Wired
His curiosity and his unlimited resources allow him to do this.
From CNN
In the 1970s, computers are an occasional curiosity in some papers.
From Foreign Policy
But he does need to arouse our curiosity about where he goes next.
From NPR
The chains of curiosity have been broken and our freedom has taken flight- however our freedom is just an empty blank cell.
From CNN
The study provides insight into the link between curiosity and how intrinsic motivation affects memory.
From Huffington Post
What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.
From The Atlantic
Happily, harpsichord recordings -- and the quality of both the instruments and their performers -- have long since evolved from being mere academic curiosities.
From NPR
My own approach has been based on curiosity.
From Fast Company
Last years featured speaker at the foray was a noted mycologist who turned curiosity about mushrooms into a 351-page, full-color book.
From OregonLive.com
But the old plasma caught my eye every few days, and eventually my curiosity got the better of me.
From CNET
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Collocations with curiosity
curiosity
These are words often used in combination with curiosity.
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historical curiosity
These medications had far more pervasive effects of might be implied by the morbid historical curiosity that they inspire today.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
idle curiosity
The need for information was not a matter of idle curiosity.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
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好奇心, 好奇心（こうきしん）…
merak, nadir şey, antika…
curiosité [feminine], curiosité…
curiositat…
nieuwsgierigheid, curiositeit…
فُضول…
zvědavost, kuriozita…
nysgerrighed, sjældenhed, kuriositet…
rasa tertarik, barang langka…
ความอยากรู้อยากเห็น, สิ่งที่แปลกและหายาก…
tính ham hiểu biết, của hiếm…
ciekawość, ciekawostka, osobliwość…
perasaan ingin tahu, aneh…
die Neugier, die Rarität…
nysgjerrighet [masculine], nysgjerrighet, merkverdighet…
호기심…
цікавість, допитливість, рідкість…
curiosità, rarità…
любопытство, странность, редкость…
