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Inquisitiveness

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n. The quality of being inquisitive; curiosity.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality or state of being inquisitive; the disposition to seek explanation and information; curiosity to learn what is unknown; esp., uncontrolled and impertinent curiosity.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The character of being inquisitive; the disposition to inquire, ask questions, or investigate; curiosity to learn: as, the inquisitiveness of the human mind.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a state of active curiosity

Word Usage

"The caution is all the more necessary, as it is precisely the foreigner, who approaches a new language with a certain prying inquisitiveness, that is most apt to see life in vestigial features which the native is either completely unaware of or feels merely as dead form."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

curiosity wonder

Hyponym

nosiness snoopiness prying

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

curiosity

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

excitability adherence absent-mindedness promptitude watchfulness