incuriousness

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Wells in The Outline of History, "the incuriousness of the Roman rich and their Roman rulers was more massive and monumental even than their architecture."

From Time Magazine Archive

It seemed rather to be a resolved incuriousness about things around her, a turning away of the face from life, as from something dreadful, that had only pain to offer her.

From Masterman and Son by Dawson, W. J. (William James)

Show me the urbanity, the generosity in trifles, better than sacrifice, the incuriousness and freedom, the grace, and wit, and honor, that will equal such as I find here.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various

Whether this was a masterpiece of policy calculated to discourage lawsuits, or whether it was merely due to Spanish incuriousness and maladministration, is a moot point.

From A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine)

The virtue he loved was simple, sociable, gay, sprightly, and playful; to use one of his own expressions, ‘Ignorance and incuriousness are two charming pillows for a sound head.’

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry