[ UK /kjˌʊɹɪˈɒsɪti/ ]
[ US /ˌkjʊɹiˈɑsəti/ ]
NOUN
  1. something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
  2. a state in which you want to learn more about something
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How To Use curiosity In A Sentence

  • Following the sound, Silk found himself among the sellers he sought Hobbled deer reared and plunged, their soft brown eyes wild with fright; a huge snake lifted its flat, malevolent head, hissing like a kettle on the stove; live salmon gasped and splashed in murky, glass-fronted tanks; pigs grunted, lambs baaed, chickens squawked, and milling goats eyed passersby with curiosity and sharp suspicion. Nightside The Long Sun
  • Some came to seek the new power, some to chuckle, others to satisfy their curiosity.
  • His curiosity excites the most patronising sympathy. Times, Sunday Times
  • the gift of a fresh eye and an untrammeled curiosity
  • The name, the recognised features, rubbed saltily against his worn curiosity, stinging it. THE LAST RAVEN
  • The freaks of nature displayed here appealed to peoples’ prejudice, their unquenchable curiosity for the outlandish and the unknown, and the paradoxical human attraction and repulsion for the diseased and deformed.
  • Given its inherent curiosity, even the simplest mind will exhaust itself devising solutions to challenges it confronts.
  • But at the core of it all is a profound curiosity about the thinking process.
  • Rarities are always helped by any device which will rouse curiosity and compel remark.
  • Richard asked suddenly, impelled by the curiosity that drives people to stare at and question the survivors of some calamity.
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