n. pl. cu·ri·os·i·ties 1. A desire to know or learn. 2. A desire to know about people or things that do not concern one; nosiness. 3. An object that arouses interest, as by being novel or extraordinary: kept the carved bone and displayed it as a curiosity. 4. A strange or odd aspect. 5. Archaic Fastidiousness. [Middle English curiosite, from Old French, from Latin cūriōsitās, from cūriōsus, inquisitive; see CURIOUS.] |
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