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noun

Curiosity n. (pl. curiosities)

The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration. (Obs.) "When thou wast in thy gilt and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much curiosity." "A screen accurately cut in tapiary work... with great curiosity."

Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness.

That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention. "We took a ramble together to see the curiosities of this great town." "There hath been practiced also a curiosity, to set a tree upon the north side of a wall, and, at a little hieght, to draw it through the wall, etc."

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Etymology of 'Curiosity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Curiosity" Quotes from Famous Books

... completely drowned his voice. The reporters were seated in a row just under the platform, in the place where the orchestra plays in an ordinary theater. Phillips made no attempt to address the noisy crowd, but bent over and seemed to be speaking in a low tone to the reporters. By and by the curiosity of the audience was excited; they ceased to clamor and tried to hear what he was saying to the reporters. Phillips looked at ...

— Public Speaking • Irvah Lester Winter

... were reported ahead on the horizon. We pushed forward with some curiosity, but unfortunately a sudd of vegetable rafts had closed the passage for a short distance, which required about an hour to ...

— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker

... accomplishment, she should take the veil. Her advancement would speedily follow, for, with such a face and figure, she would make a capital lady abbess, especially in Italy, to which country she would probably be sent; ladies of her hair and complexion—to say nothing of her height—being a curiosity in the south. With a little care and management she could soon obtain a vast reputation for sanctity; and who knows but after her death she might become a glorified saint—he! he! Sister Maria Theresa, for that is the name ...

— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow

... she hastened to the window—the officer was standing in his accustomed place, with his eyes fixed upon her. She drew back, a prey to curiosity and agitated by a feeling which ...

— Best Russian Short Stories • Various

... parentage, lost for a while in the press of war and exciting events, returned. He felt intuitively that Master Hardy, like Willet, knew who and what he was, and he also felt with the same force that neither would reply to any question of his on the subject. So he kept his peace and by and by his curiosity, as it always did, disappeared before ...

— The Shadow of the North - A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign • Joseph A. Altsheler

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