- the desire to learn or know about anything; inquisitiveness: The lesson provoked their curiosity about the natural world.She feels that tolerance is fed by knowledge, an open mind, and curiosity about others.
- a curious, rare, or novel thing: Exhibits on display will include such curiosities as preserved smells, infrared briefcases, and cameras hidden in coats.
- a strange, curious, or interesting quality or feature: How bankers from Nova Scotia set up in the Caribbean in the 1880s is a curiosity of financial history.One of the human brain's many curiosities is its tendency to see faces in abstract shapes.
- carefulness; fastidiousness.
- being too inquisitive is dangerous: I'd really like to know what's going on in the boss's head, but then, curiosity killed the cat.
- an eager desire to know; inquisitiveness
- the quality of being curious; strangeness
- (as modifier)
- something strange or fascinating
- a rare or strange object; curio
- fastidiousness
