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noun

curiosity

CEFR B1

a state in which you want to learn more about something

In a sentence

Six example sentences with curiosity, each labelled with its topic.

  • Pure curiosity funded the experiment, and nobody expected the result to end up inside every phone battery today.

    Science

  • The biography traces a childhood curiosity about tide pools into forty years of writing about shellfish.

    Literature

  • Curiosity kept her walking one more block, and the doorway she found there became her best-known picture.

    Photography

  • Curiosity spikes when people know a little about a topic but not enough, which is why a half-heard rumor is impossible to drop.

    Psychology

  • Aristotle opened the Metaphysics with curiosity itself, claiming that all people by nature desire to know.

    Philosophy

  • Pure curiosity sent her down the unmarked alley, and it ended at a courtyard bakery no guidebook had mentioned.

    Travel

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