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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Curiosity \Cu`ri*os"i*ty\ (k[=u]`r[i^]*[o^]s"[i^]*t[y^]), n.; pl {Curiosities} (-t[i^]z). [OE. curiouste curiosite, OF curioset['e], curiosit['e], F. curiosit['e], fr L. curiositas fr curiosus. See {Curious}, and cf {Curio}.] 1. The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration. [Obs.] --Bacon. When thou wast in thy gilt and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much curiosity. --Shak. A screen accurately cut in tapiary work . . . with great curiosity. --Evelin. 2. Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness. --Milton. 3. That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention. We took a ramble together to see the curiosities of this great town. --Addison. 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 --Bacon. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: curiosity n 1: a state in which you want to learn more about something [syn: {wonder}] 2: something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting [syn: {curio}, {oddity}, {oddment}, {peculiarity}, {rarity}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
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