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cu⋅ri⋅os⋅i⋅ty

  [kyoor-ee-os-i-tee]
–noun, plural -ties.
1. the desire to learn or know about anything; inquisitiveness.
2. a curious, rare, or novel thing.
3. a strange, curious, or interesting quality.
4. Archaic. carefulness; fastidiousness.
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Origin:
1350–1400; ME curiosite (< AF) < L cūriōsitās. See curious, -ity
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cu·ri·os·i·ty   (kyŏŏr'ē-ŏs'ĭ-tē)   
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.


[Middle English curiosite, from Old French, from Latin cūriōsitās, from cūriōsus, inquisitive; see curious.]
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