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curiosity    音標拼音: [kj,ʊri'ɑsəti]
n. 好奇心,新奇的事物,珍品

好奇心,新奇的事物,珍品

curiosity
n 1: a state in which you want to learn more about something
[synonym: {curiosity}, {wonder}]
2: something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting [synonym:
{curio}, {curiosity}, {oddity}, {oddment}, {peculiarity},
{rarity}]

Curiosity \Cu`ri*os"i*ty\ (k[=u]`r[i^]*[o^]s"[i^]*t[y^]), n.;
pl. {Curiosities} (-t[i^]z). [OE. curiouste, curiosite, OF.
curioset['e], curiosit['e], F. curiosit['e], fr. L.
curiositas, fr. curiosus. See {Curious}, and cf. {Curio}.]
1. The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy;
exactness; elaboration. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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When thou wast in thy gilt and thy perfume, they
mocked thee for too much curiosity. --Shak.
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A screen accurately cut in tapiary work . . . with
great curiosity. --Evelin.
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2. Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after
knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new
information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness.
--Milton.
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3. That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward
attention.
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We took a ramble together to see the curiosities of
this great town. --Addison.
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There hath been practiced also a curiosity, to set a
tree upon the north side of a wall, and, at a little
hieght, to draw it through the wall, etc. --Bacon.
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81 Moby Thesaurus words for "curiosity":
abnormality, amazement, anomaly, ardor, astonishing thing,
astonishment, bauble, bric-a-brac, cathexis, concern, concernment,
concupiscence, conversation piece, curio, desideration, desire,
drive, eagerness, enthusiasm, exception, fancy, fantasy, freak,
gazingstock, gewgaw, hope, horme, improbability, inquisitiveness,
intellectual curiosity, interest, interestedness, interference,
intrusiveness, libido, lust for learning, marvel, marvelment,
matter of interest, meddlesomeness, mind, miracle, monstrosity,
museum piece, need, nonesuch, nosiness, objet d'art, oddity,
passion, phenomenon, pleasure, pleasure principle, prodigiosity,
prodigy, prying, questioning, quite a thing, rarity, regard,
sensation, sexual desire, sight, snooping, something else,
special interest, spectacle, strange thing, stunner,
thirst for knowledge, trinket, urge, want, wanting, will,
will and pleasure, wish, wish fulfillment, wonder, wonderful thing,
wonderment



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