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

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:4.5 / 9 votes

1. curiositynoun

   Antonyms:
   ignorance

   Synonyms:
   inquisitiveness

2. curiositynoun

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

   Antonyms:
   ignorance

   Synonyms:
   inquisitiveness

3. curiositynoun

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

   Antonyms:
   ignorance

   Synonyms:
   inquisitiveness

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

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

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

Matched Categories

1. • Cognitive State

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms: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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. curiositynoun

   Antonyms:
   incuriosity, uninquisitiveness

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

How to use curiosity in a sentence?

1. danwise:

   When in doubt about how to live watch the dogs and the kids. Curiosity and playfulness.

2. Jim Green:

   The New Horizons mission has taken what we thought we knew about Pluto and turned it upside down, the New Horizons mission's why we explore -- to satisfy our innate curiosity and answer deeper questions about how we got here and what lies beyond the next horizon. Related : Spacecraft achieves flyby of Pluto, then calls home September NASA, which is discussing a slew of Pluto discoveries at the 47th Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences in National Harbor, Md. this week, highlighted the ‘ cryovolcanoes ’ as a key finding. Geologists on the New Horizons team combined images of Pluto’s surface to make 3-D maps that indicate two of Pluto’s most distinctive mountains could be ice volcanoes. In its statement September NASA explained that the ‘ cryovolcanoes ’ may even have been active in the recent past. The two candidates are large features on the dwarf planet’s surface measuring tens of miles across and several miles high. Related : September NASA releases first Pluto flyby images.

3. Ashley Taylor:

   They’re not trying to tell you what’s true, there’s always a spirit of curiosity and questioning and openness.

4. Alexi Pappas:

   To join that tradition felt like a rite of passage and something that I was genuinely curious about, being Greek, it's also one of those traditions that's deeply rooted in my background and I think everyone runs a marathon out of curiosity for what their mind or bodies might be able to do.

5. Guy Trudel:

   If we can find out exactly what's causing this anemia, then there is a potential to treat it or prevent it, both for astronauts and for patients here on Earth, this is the best description we have of red blood cell control in space and after return to Earth. We were surprised and rewarded for our curiosity.

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