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(kyoobrever′ē·osə·tē) noun pl ·ties
1. Desire for knowledge of something.
2. Inquisitive interest in the private affairs of others.
3. An interesting or strange quality.
4. Any object adapted to excite interest or inquiry.
5. Obs. Fastidiousness; nicety. [<L curiositas, -tatis <curiosus CURIOUS]

Most often used phrases:

out of curiosity
curiosity shop
intellectual curiosity
curiosity killed
idle curiosity
scientific curiosity
natural curiosity
historical curiosity
morbid curiosity
public curiosity
curiosity seekers
insatiable curiosity
human curiosity
sheer curiosity
olde curiosity

'curiosity' used in domains:

curiosity2know.com
curiositybydiscovery.com
winecuriosity.com
thecuriosityfarm.com
curiositykats.com
furiouscuriosity.com

Statistical data

"curiosity" has the frequency of use of 0.0015% on city-data.com forum

"curiosity" has the frequency of use of 0.0004% on en.wikipedia.org.

Phrases starting with the letter: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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