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curiosity
verbs
have a lot of curiosity
• Bright children often have a lot of curiosity.
satisfy somebody's curiosity
(= find out something that you want to know )
• I decided to call him in order to satisfy my curiosity.
arouse somebody's curiosity
(= make someone want to know about something )
• New people in the village always aroused our curiosity.
curiosity gets the better of somebody/overcomes somebody
(= makes you do something that you are trying not to do )
• Curiosity got the better of me and I opened her diary.
pique somebody's curiosity
(= make someone want to know about something )
• Something she said had piqued his curiosity.
adjectives
natural curiosity
• The children are encouraged to follow their natural curiosity, and learn about what interests them.
intellectual curiosity
• Highly intelligent people are full of intellectual curiosity.
scientific curiosity
(= about scientific things )
• Their scientific curiosity led to the development of the vaccine.
idle curiosity
(= wanting to know something for no particular reason )
• Out of idle curiosity, I looked out of the window.
open curiosity
(= that you do not try to hide )
• The children were staring at her with open curiosity.
great/intense curiosity
• His disappearance had obviously aroused great curiosity.
insatiable curiosity
(= used when someone is always curious )
• He had an insatiable curiosity about why people do the things they do.
mild curiosity
(= not great )
• I watched what was happening with mild curiosity.
morbid curiosity
(= a feeling of wanting to know about death or other bad things that happen )
• the morbid curiosity of the onlookers at the trial
phrases
be burning with curiosity
(= want to know about something very much )
• She was burning with curiosity about him, but was too polite to ask.
be an object/a subject of curiosity
(= be something or someone that makes people curious )
• Anyone new was always the object of our curiosity.
curiosity + NOUN
curiosity value
(= the quality or advantage of being something that people want to know about )
• When the shop was new it had curiosity value.
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noun ADJ. great, intense | insatiable She has an insatiable curiosity about life. | mild | idle, mere, simple ‘Why do you ask?’ ‘Mere curiosity.’ | natural School should awaken a child's natural curiosity. | open staring with open curiosity | morbid VERB + CURIOSITY have | arouse, awaken Their curiosity was aroused by his strange behaviour. | satisfy CURIOSITY + VERB get the better of sb, overcome sb Harry's curiosity got the better of him and he unlocked the cupboard PREP. out of ~ We went to the show out of curiosity more than anything else. | with ~ The children watched us with mild curiosity. | ~ about I needed to satisfy my curiosity about what it was like to make records. PHRASES a sense of curiosity
Oxford Collocations Dictionary