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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
Translations
References
curiosity From the web:
- what curiosity mean
- what curiosity killed the cat means
- what curiosity can do in research
- what's curiosity stream
- what curiosity found on mars
- what curiosity does to the brain
- what curiosity mean in arabic
- what's curiosity in french
queerness
English
Etymology
From queer +? -ness.
Noun
queerness (countable and uncountable, plural queernesses)
- (uncountable) The quality of being queer or odd.
- (countable) Something queer; an oddity.
- (uncountable) The quality of being queer, in the sense of not conforming to sexual or gender norms.
Synonyms
- (all): queerhood
- (state of being odd): abnormality, oddness, weirdness; see also Thesaurus:strangeness
- (an oddity): deviance, irregularity, outlier; see also Thesaurus:anomaly
- (state of not conforming to sexual norms): nonheterosexuality
Hyponyms
- (state of not conforming to sexual norms): gayness, homosexuality
Translations
queerness From the web:
- what is queerness in art
- what does queerness mean in literature
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