curiosity: meaning and definitions

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What is curiosity?

What is curiosity?

  • A desire to know or learn.
  • A desire to know about people or things that do not concern one; nosiness.
  • An object that arouses interest, as by being novel or extraordinary: kept the carved bone and displayed it as a curiosity.
  • A strange or odd aspect.
  • Archaic Fastidiousness.

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