different between anomoly vs curiosity
anomoly
English
Noun
anomoly
- Misspelling of anomaly.
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curiosity
English
Etymology
From Middle English curiosite, variant of curiouste, from Anglo-Norman curiouseté, from Latin c?ri?sit?tem, from c?ri?sus. Surface analysis curious +? -ity; see -osity.
Pronunciation
- enPR: kyoo?r"??s'?t?, IPA(key): /?kj??????s?ti/
Noun
curiosity (countable and uncountable, plural curiosities)
- (uncountable) Inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask and learn about things by asking questions, investigating, or exploring. [from 17th c.]
- Synonym: inquisitiveness
- Antonym: ignorance
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
- It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend's quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre
- A unique or extraordinary object which arouses interest. [from 17th c.]
- (obsolete) Careful, delicate construction; fine workmanship, delicacy of building. [16th-19th c.]
- 1631, John Smith, Advertisements, in Kupperman 1988, p. 81:
- wee built a homely thing like a barne, set upon Cratchets, covered with rafts, sedge, and earth, so also was the walls; the best of our houses of the like curiosity, but the most part farre much worse workmanship […]
- 1631, John Smith, Advertisements, in Kupperman 1988, p. 81:
Derived terms
- curiosity killed the cat
Related terms
- curious
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