curiosity

Definition for curiosity

noun as in desire to learn or know about anything

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eagerness, interestedness, intrusiveness, investigation, meddlesomeness, meddling, nosiness, officiousness, prying, questioning, snoopiness

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inquiring mind, inquiringness, mental acquisitiveness, searching, snooping, thirst for knowledge

noun as in a rare or novel thing

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curio, novelty, rarity

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knickknack, objet d'art, trinket

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bibelot, conversation piece, exoticism, marvel, oddity, one of a kind, peculiar object, rara avis, rare bird, singular object, unusual object, wonder

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In My First Coup d'Etat, Mahama Jr describes himself as "an observant child with an active imagination and an unbounded curiosity".

From BBC

Enumerating the areas of his curiosity alone could take four hours, so the focus here is more on his output, whose scope and impact are singular even now.

From New York Times

Almost as shocking is the church’s repeated lack of curiosity and inaction when people tried to warn about what he was doing, also described in the report.

From BBC

Ms Rebbeck also looked for information about the 33-year-old that was not connected with the her duties multiple times, which the panel heard had “centred on her own morbid curiosity”.

From BBC

There’s power in learning about people and expressing curiosity.

From Los Angeles Times

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