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• n  a state in which you want to learn more about something
• n  something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting

• It was Lie's intellectual curiosity that led him to question a pattern in stock-price behavior that was widely accepted as coincidental: Why is it that the issuance of stock .
• We were displayed as a curiosity three times a day for millions of tourists.
• The curiosity gave way to horror and indignation 17 days later Cricket's bruised, partly clothed body had been found in a shallow grave on a mesa twelve miles from town.

• wonder
• curio
• oddity
• oddment
• peculiarity
• rarity

News & Articles

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• Curiosity Gets Set for Epic Drive after Laser Blasting Mars Watery Secrets
  Ten months after her breathtaking touchdown on the Red Planet, NASA’s Curiosity rover is nearly set to embark on an epic drive like no other in space history to the slopes of mysterious Mount Sharp – looming supreme inside Gale Crater and the primary mission objective. But not before the robot completes a few last [...]
  June 14, 2013 - Universe Today
• Local News
  GUILFORD LAKE - Some showed up out of curiosity. Others showed up because they follow independent wrestling like some people follow music bands. Both came expecting something.
  June 14, 2013 - Lisbon Morning Journal
• Hawks vs. Bruins a curiosity wrapped in a mystery
  Drop the puck already! Going in, this Hawks-Bruins series is a real curiosity. It's the most unpredicatable championship round that any Chicago team has played in for a half-century.
  June 11, 2013 - Daily Herald

Quotes

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• Sean McCormack in FOXNews
  We believe this was out of imprudent curiosity, but we are taking steps to reassure ourselves that that is, in fact, the case,McCormack said.
• Rod Blagojevich in FOXNews
  Now they are lost, but still loved. Their memory is a blessing _ not just because of their spirit and intelligence, their love and their laughter, their curiosity and their friendship,Blagojevich said. "Their memory is a blessing because...
• Tiger Wood in Sydney Morning Herald
  Although I understand there is curiosity, the many false, unfounded and malicious rumours that are currently circulating about my family and me are irresponsible,the golfer said.