Definition of curiosity

"curiosity" in the noun sense

1. curiosity, wonder

a state in which you want to learn more about something

2. curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity

something unusual

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Quotations for curiosity

That low vice curiosity. [ Byron ]

A penny for your thought. [ Swift ]

I loathe that low vice, curiosity. [ Byron ]

The over curious are not over wise. [ Massinger ]

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Curiosity is thought on its entering edge. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]

Curiosity is endless, restless and useless. [ Proverb ]

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. [ Emerson ]

Curiosity is ill manners in another's house. [ Proverb ]

Curiosity has lost more young girls than love. [ Mme. de Puisieux ]

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs. [ Goldsmith ]

If you are wise, and prize your peace of mind,
Believe me true, nor listen to your Jealousy,
Let not that devil which undoes your sex,
That cursed curiosity seduce you
To hunt for needless secrets, which, neglected,
Shall never hurt your quiet, but once known
Shall sit upon your heart, pinch it with pain,
And banish sweet sleep forever from you. [ Rowe ]

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. [ Victor Hugo ]

Envy and Idleness married together begot Curiosity. [ Proverb ]

Curiosity is a little more than another name for hope. [ J. G. and A. W. Hare ]

He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit. [ Dryden ]

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge. [ Bible ]

Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of steps. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Where curiosity is not the purveyor, detraction will soon be starved. [ Proverb ]

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention as attention is of memory. [ Whately ]

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity. [ Burke ]

The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex. [ Richardson ]

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. [ Johnson ]

Curiosity in children Nature has provided to remove the ignorance they were born with. [ Locke ]

The enquiring spirit will not be controlled. We would make certain all, and all behold. [ Sprague ]

People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

If the true did not possess an objective value, human curiosity would have died out centuries ago. [ Renan ]

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. [ Charles Lamb ]

Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest him. [ Lavater ]

The age of curiosity, like that of chivalry, is ended, properly speaking, gone. Yet perhaps only gone to sleep. [ Carlyle ]

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Libraries are the wardrobes of our literature, whence men, properly informed, might bring something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use. [ J. Dyer ]

Inquisitiveness or curiosity is a kernel of the forbidden fruit, which still sticketh in the throat of a natural man, and sometimes to the danger of his choking. [ Fuller ]

Love is a bird of passage that women await with curiosity in youth, retain with pleasure in maturer years, and allow to escape with regret when old age creeps upon them. [ A. Ricard ]

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of the bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. [ Pope ]

The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-travelling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and cast anchor; the ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise; odors of distant countries and times steal from the red leaves the swelling ridges of vellum, and the titles in tarnished gold. [ R. A. Willmott ]

Frivolous curiosity about trifles, and laborious attentions to little objects which neither require nor deserve a moment's thought, lower a man, who from thence is thought (and not unjustly) incapable of greater matters. Cardinal de Retz very sagaciously marked out Cardinal Chigi for a little mind, from the moment he told him that he had wrote three years with the same pen, and that it was an excellent good one still. [ Chesterfield ]

The mother, under whose sole influence the child is for years, from whom it acquires its tastes and character, should not only be educated, but educated in the most thorough manner, and have her mind stored with varied learning, so that she may be able to answer the multitude of questions that will be put to her by her inquisitive child on art, science, literature, and religion, and thus to stimulate his curiosity, and awaken his mind. [ E. B. Ramsay ]

If I were to choose the people with whom I would spend my hours of conversation, they should be certainly such as labored no further than to make themselves readily and clearly apprehended, and would have patience and curiosity to understand me. To have good sense and ability to express it are the most essential and necessary qualities in companions. When thoughts rise in us fit to utter among familiar friends, there needs but very little care in clothing them. [ Steele ]

curiosity in Scrabble®

The word curiosity is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters curiosity:

CURIOSITY
(135)
CURIOSITY
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Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

citrusy, urocyst

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word curiosity

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curiosity in Words With Friends™

The word curiosity is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters curiosity:

CURIOSITY
(171)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

citrusy, urocyst

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word curiosity

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In curiosity

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Words within the letters of curiosity

2 letter words in curiosity (7 words)

6 letter words in curiosity (10 words)

7 letter words in curiosity (2 words)

9 letter words in curiosity (1 word)

curiosity + 2 blanks (4 words)

Words containing the sequence curiosity

Words that start with curiosity (1 word)

Words with curiosity in them (1 word)

Words that end with curiosity (1 word)

Word Growth involving curiosity

Shorter words in curiosity

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it sit

Longer words containing curiosity

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