Definizione monolingua

curiosity

curiosity (plural curiosities)

1. (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 [...].

2. Inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask learn about things by asking questions, investigating, or exploring. [from 17th c.]
   • 1956 — Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, p 39:

     ""Certainly there is nothing wrong with Alvins intelligence, but many of the things that should concern him seem to be a matter of complete indifference. On the other hand, he shows a morbid curiosity regarding subjects which we do not generally discuss.""

   • 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 friends quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre

3. A unique or extraordinary object which arouses interest. [from 17th c.]

   He kept the strangely shaped rock as a curiosity.

Definizione dizionario curiosity

	curiosità
	inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask questions, investigate, or explore
	The desire to learn or know about anything.

Altri significati:

(idle) curiosity

A unique or extraordinary object which arouses interest. [from 17th c.]

unique or extraordinary object which arouses interest

(obsolete) Careful, delicate construction; fine workmanship, delicacy of building. [16th-19th c.]

Inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask learn about things by asking questions, investigating, or exploring. [from 17th c.]