Synonyms for curiosity
ˌkyʊər iˈɒs ɪ ticu·rios·i·ty

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1. curiositynoun

   Synonyms:
   inquisitiveness

   Antonyms:
   ignorance

2. curiositynoun

   Careful, delicate construction; fine workmanship, delicacy of building.

   Synonyms:
   inquisitiveness

   Antonyms:
   ignorance

3. curiositynoun

   Inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask learn about things by asking questions, investigating, or exploring.

   Synonyms:
   inquisitiveness

   Antonyms:
   ignorance

4. curiositynoun

   A unique or extraordinary object which arouses interest.

   He kept the strangely shaped rock as a curiosity.

   Synonyms:
   inquisitiveness

   Antonyms:
   ignorance

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.2 / 5 votes

1. curiosity

   Synonyms:
   inquisitiveness, interest, wonder, marvel, interrogativeness, rarity, phenomenon, celebrity, oddity, lion

   Antonyms:
   indifference, heedlessness, disregard, abstraction, absence, weed, drug, dirt, cipher, bagatelle, song

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. curiosity, wondernoun

   a state in which you want to learn more about something

   Synonyms:
   peculiarity, oddment, wonderment, wonder, marvel, curio, oddity, admiration, rarity

2. curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, raritynoun

   something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting

   Synonyms:
   rarity, tenuity, remainder, wonder, end, distinguishing characteristic, distinctiveness, rareness, curio, oddness, specialty, quirkiness, low density, queerness, oddity, crotchet, specialness, distinctive feature, remnant, peculiarity, oddment, infrequency, quirk, speciality

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1. • Cognitive State

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. curiositynoun

   Synonyms:
   inquisitiveness

2. curiositynoun

   Synonyms:
   phenomenon, wonder, marvel, rarity, sight, spectacle

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1. curiositynoun

   Synonyms:
   inquisitiveness, curio, freak, rarity, rara avis, wonder

   Antonyms:
   incuriosity, uninquisitiveness

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1. List of paraphrases for "curiosity":

   curious

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1. Oscar Auliq-Ice:

   Curiosity, in its purest form, also nurtures the essence of creativity. It encourages us to view things from new perspectives, to imagine the unimaginable, and to create what has never been created before.

2. Oscar Wilde:

   The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

3. Kim Jong:

   I wondered how they felt when holding hands, and now my curiosity has been satisfied.

4. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   Be curious! Curiosity is the mother of all knowledge.

5. Jon Ronson:

   I'm sure she has her fair share of trauma and anxiety and so on, but she never lets it get to her. She always just keeps going. And there's no rancor, if you'd been falsely accused of murder and convicted and falsely imprisoned for several years, you would presumably feel some rancor towards the people who did that to you, but she doesn't. She works really hard to feel empathy and curiosity and compassion towards everybody -- including her prosecutors.