CURIOSITY, n. [L. See Curious.] 1. A strong desire to see something novel, or to discover something unknown, either by research or inquiry; a desire to gratify the senses with a sight of what is new or unusual, or to gratify the mind with new discoveries; inquisitiveness. A mans curiosity leads him to view the ruins of Balbec, to investigate the origin of Homer, to discover the component parts of a mineral, or the motives of anothers actions.2. Nicety; delicacy.3. Accuracy; exactness; nice performance; curiousness; as the curiosity of workmanship.4. A nice experiment; a thing unusual or worthy of curiosity.There hath been practiced a curiosity, to set a tree on the north side of a walk and at a little height, to draw it through the wall, &c.5. An object of curiosity; that which excites a desire of seeing, or deserves to be seen, as novel and extraordinary.We took a ramble together to see the curiosities of this great town. [The first and last senses are chiefly used.] |
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