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  1. curiosity

    noun

    1. A desire to know or learn.
    2. A desire to know about people or things that do not concern one; nosiness.
    3. An object that arouses interest, as by being novel or extraordinary.
      "kept the carved bone and displayed it as a curiosity."

    noun

    1. A desire to know or learn.
    2. A desire to know about people or things that do not concern one; nosiness.
    3. An object that arouses interest, as by being novel or extraordinary.
      "kept the carved bone and displayed it as a curiosity."
    4. A strange or odd aspect.
    5. Fastidiousness.
    6. The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.
      Similar: nicety accuracy exactness elaboration
    7. Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness.
      Similar: inquisitiveness
    8. That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention.
    9. Something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting.
    The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik
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    Curiosity (from Latin cūriōsitās, from cūriōsus "careful, diligent, curious", akin to cura "care") is a quality related to inquisitive thinking, such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident in humans and other animals. [2][3] Curiosity helps human development, from which derives the process of learning and desire to acquire ...
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    Curiosity

    Curiosity is a quality related to inquisitive thinking such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident in humans and other animals. Curiosity helps human development, from which derives the process of learning and desire to acquire knowledge and skill. The term curiosity can also denote the behavior, characteristic, or emotion of being curious, in regard to the desire to gain knowledge or information. Curiosity as a behavior and emotion is the driving force behind human development, such as progress in science, language, and industry. Curiosity can be considered to be an evolutionary adaptation based on an organism's ability to learn. Certain curious animals will pursue information in order to adapt to their surrounding and learn how things work. This behavior is termed neophilia, the love of new things. For animals, a fear of the unknown or the new, neophobia, is much more common, especially later in life. Wikipedia

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