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A state of active curiosity
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curiousness
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a state of active curiosity [syn: inquisitiveness ] the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner" [syn: foreignness , strangeness ] [ant: nativeness ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curiousness \Cu"ri*ous*ness\, n. Carefulness; painstaking. [Obs.] My father's care With curiousness and cost did train me up. -- Massinger. The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance. Inquisitiveness; curiosity.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 inquisitiveness; curiosity 2 (context obsolete English) care; carefulness; pains 3 (context dated English) The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance. 4 (context countable English) The result or product of being ...
Usage examples of curiousness.
Those who had beheld the two ride homeward together in the morning were full of curiousness, and one and another mentioning the matter exchanged glances, speaking plainly of desire to know more of what had passed, and of hope that chance might throw the two together again in public, where more of interest might be gathered.
From the hag who had told her of the poor girl's hanging upon Tyburn Tree, she learned things by close questioning which, to the old woman's dull wit, seemed but the curiousness of a great lady, and from others, who stood too deep in awe of her to think of her as a mere human being, she gathered clues which led her far in the tracing of the evils following one wicked, heartless life.
With dumb, dull curiousness, she looked into one after another of the limitless stream of faces, and she fancied she saw in them every emotion but pity.
Nor does it at all diminish the curiousness of this matter, that to many thousands of our rural boys and young men born along its line, the probationary life of the Grand Canal furnishes the sole transition between quietly reaping in a Christian corn-field, and recklessly ploughing the waters of the most barbaric seas.