What is "curiousity"

Usage examples of "curiousity".

Ward himself tried to be more affable, but succeeded only in provoking curiousity with his rambling accounts of chemical research.

Willett had visited the spot before through sheer curiousity, though of course never entering the house or proclaiming his presence.

I felt then such helplessness as I had never known, but at the same time a sort of distant curiousity about my posture, even envisaging other girls in the same pose and with their bottoms bared as mine was about to be.

And his famous curiousity, an itch he could never scratch, prodded him like an ox goad.

Is my mind tottering at last, or has my unwarranted curiousity evoked unheard-of horrors from the twilight spaces?