Crossword clues for curiosity
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curiosity \Cu`ri*os"i*ty\ (k[=u]`r[i^]*[o^]s"[i^]*t[y^]), n.; pl. Curiosities (-t[i^]z). [OE. curiouste, curiosite, OF. curioset['e], curiosit['e], F. curiosit['e], fr. L. curiositas, fr. curiosus. See Curious, and cf. Curio.]
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The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration. [Obs.]
--Bacon.When thou wast in thy gilt and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much curiosity.
--Shak.A screen accurately cut in tapiary work . . . with great curiosity.
--Evelin. Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness.
--Milton.-
That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention.
We took a ramble together to see the curiosities of this great town.
--Addison.There hath been practiced also a curiosity, to set a tree upon the north side of a wall, and, at a little hieght, to draw it through the wall, etc.
--Bacon. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "careful attention to detail," also "desire to know or learn" (originally usually in a bad sense), from Old French curiosete "curiosity, avidity, choosiness" (Modern French curiosité), from Latin curiositatem (nominative curiositas) "desire of knowledge, inquisitiveness," from curiosus (see curious). Neutral or good sense is from early 17c. Meaning "an object of interest" is from 1640s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) Careful, delicate construction; fine workmanship, delicacy of building. (16th-19th c.) 2 (qual: uncountable) inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask and learn about things by asking questions, investigating, or exploring. (from 17th c.)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Curiosity (from Latin curiosus "careful, diligent, curious," akin to cura "care") is a quality related to inquisitive thinking such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident by observation in humans and other animals. Curiosity is heavily associated with all aspects of human development, in which derives the process of learning and desire to acquire knowledge and skill.
The term "curiosity" can also be used to denote the behavior or emotion of being curious, in regards to the desire to gain knowledge or information. Curiosity as a behavior and emotion is attributed over millennia as the driving force behind not only human development, but developments in science, language, and industry.
"Curiosity" was the first single released by the Jets from their critically and commercially successful debut album The Jets. This was a successful single on the R&B chart in the U.S., peaking at number eight.
Curiosity is a 2009 British short film written and directed by Toby Spanton.
Curiosity is an American documentary television series that premiered on August 7, 2011, on the Discovery Channel. Each episode focuses on one question in science, technology, and society (e.g., why the sank) and, for the first season, features a different celebrity host. Stephen Hawking hosted the premiere episode titled "Did God Create the Universe?", which aired simultaneously on seven Discovery Communications networks: Discovery Channel, TLC, Discovery Fit and Health, Animal Planet, Science, Investigation Discovery, and Destination America. Season one consists of 16 episodes.
Curiosity is a disposition to natural inquisitive behavior such as exploration, investigation, and learning.
Curiosity may also refer to:
- Novelty item or curiosity, an object that excites or rewards attention
- "Curiosity" (poem), by Charles Sprague
- Curiosity rover, part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, launched at the end of 2011 and landed on Mars in August 2012
- Curiosity – What's Inside the Cube?, a game by Peter Molyneux
- Curiosity (TV series), a show on Discovery Channel
- Curiosity (film), a 2009 short film
- Curiosity, the early 1990s billing of the British band Curiosity Killed the Cat
- Curiosity (album), the debut album of the Eric Stuart Band
- Curiosity (Killing the Cat), the twin album of the cassette edition of The Cure's Concert
- "Curiosity" (The Jets song), a song by The Jets
- Curiosity (EP), an EP by Carly Rae Jepsen "Curiosity" (Carly Rae Jepsen song), the title track of the EP by Carly Rae Jepsen.
- The Curiosity Show, an Australian educational children's television show
- Curiosity (cartoon), a 1967 Yugoslavian cartoon
Curiosity ( Croat: Znatiželja) is a 1967 Yugoslavian cartoon.
Curiosity is a 2013 album by the American indie rock band Wampire. It was released on May 14, 2013 through Polyvinyl.
Curiosity is the first EP by Canadian recording artist Carly Rae Jepsen. It was released on February 14, 2012, by 604 Records. Initially planned as a full-length album, Curiosity was cut down to a six-song EP just days before its release. Musically, Curiosity is a pop album influenced by several genres such as dance-pop and R&B, while its lyrical content is mostly about love.
Curiosity received generally positive reviews from contemporary music, with many praising the quality of the tracks and labeling it mainstream. Its lead single, " Call Me Maybe", was a commercial success, topping the charts in several countries and is one of the best-selling singles of all time, with over 18 million copies sold. The album peaked at number six on the Canadian Albums Chart.
"Curiosity" is a song recorded by Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen for her EP Curiosity (2012). It was released as the second single from the EP on May 1, 2012, through 604 Records. Produced and co-written by Ryan Stewart, "Curiosity" is an upbeat pop track that is influenced by dance and synthpop. Lyrically, the track alludes to a girl who is poorly treated by a bad boy, and begs for more of his love. It received generally positive reviews from contemporary critics, who deemed it as similar to Jepsen's previous single, " Call Me Maybe". Following its release, the track reached number 18 on the Canadian Hot 100. A new version of the track was included on her international debut album Kiss.
Curiosity is a car-sized robotic rover exploring Gale Crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission (MSL). As of , Curiosity has been on Mars for sols ( total days) since landing on August 6, 2012. (See current status.)
Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26, 2011, at 15:02 UTC aboard the MSL spacecraft and landed on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater on Mars on August 6, 2012, 05:17 UTC. The Bradbury Landing site was less than from the center of the rover's touchdown target after a journey.
The rover's goals include: investigation of the Martian climate and geology; assessment of whether the selected field site inside Gale Crater has ever offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life, including investigation of the role of water; and planetary habitability studies in preparation for future human exploration.
Curiosity design will serve as the basis for the planned Mars 2020 rover. In December 2012, Curiosity two-year mission was extended indefinitely.
Usage examples of "curiosity".
It was the first time he had got abovestairs, but I think he might have quelled his curiosity.
Once, for no reason other than intellectual curiosity, Adams rode to Windsor to call on the famous English astronomer Sir William Herschel, whose crowning achievement had been the discovery of the planet Uranus.
VISITORS CONTINUED to call out of curiosity or genuine friendship, and Adams took pleasure in nearly all.
On her second day home, Elizabeth had gone with Nathaniel to call on her father and brother, but a very grim-faced Curiosity had told her that the judge and Julian had just left for Albany, on business they would not name.
From allover the island people came to give honor to the new battle chieftain and to gaze with curiosity upon the foreign-born berserker who could wield the shapeshifting magic of their ancestors.
It was fortunate for me that I did not procure these volumes till I had heard them very generally spoken of, for the curiosity I felt to know the contents of a work so violently anathematised, led me to make enquiries which elicited a great deal of curious feeling.
Fitzpatrick looked with bemused curiosity at the aquarium on the inner wall, where angelfish flitted back and forth in an endless exploration of their small world.
The police posted a guard on the highway, in case the Angels got restless and tried to get back to town, but there was no way to seal the camp off entirely, nor any provision for handling local innocents who might be drawn to the scene out of curiosity or other, darker reasons not mentioned in police training manuals.
It must be remembered that limits of space have forbidden satisfactory discussion of the cases, and the prime object of the whole work has been to carefully collect and group the anomalies and curiosities, and allow the reader to form his own conclusions and make his own deductions.
He followed, his whiskers aquiver with an intense rush of curiosity he could not quite subdue.
With a gallant show of anticipation, a sprig of geranium in his lapel, he set out for the train on that fateful morning, while Little Arcady awaited his return with a cordial curiosity.
It sometimes tricked him, however, for passers occasionally kept looking at the huge Ashanti through curiosity.
Bullen slunk away when it was extended protectingly above him, but the warriors now gazing at it were evidently animated only by a respectful curiosity.
Tawtry House not only offered a ready welcome and bountiful hospitality to the occasional hunter, trader, or traveller tempted by business or curiosity into that wild region, but to the Indians who still roamed the forest at will and had established one of their villages at no great distance from it.
Recognizing the bottle of Barolo to be one of the pair her father had rescued from Fiamma dTnfer, Pandoras curiosity grew exponentially.