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Curiousness

noun
1.
A state of active curiosity.  Synonym: inquisitiveness.
2.
The quality of being alien or not native.  Synonyms: foreignness, strangeness.






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"Curiousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... its curiousness, so attractive alike to sage and dilettante, lie its dim dangers, throwing across us shadows at once grotesque and awful. Plain it is to us that what the world seeks through desert and wild we have within our threshold;—a stalwart laboring force, suited to the semi-tropics; ...
— The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue • Various

... surviving trick of inheritance, as in later times it came in contact with the civilisation of Caria and Lycia, old affinities being here linked anew; and with a certain Asiatic tradition, of which one representative is the Ionic style of architecture, traceable all through Greek art—an Asiatic curiousness, or poikilia, strongest in that heroic age of which I have been speaking, and distinguishing some schools and masters in Greece more than others; and always in appreciable distinction from the more clearly defined and self-asserted Hellenic influence. Homer himself witnesses to the intercourse, ...
— Greek Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater

... the sick heart Often, we would rather be hurt than hurt Queer that things which hurt most can't be punished by law Rack of secrecy, the cruelest inquisition of life Sardonic pleasure in the miseries of the world Sympathy, with curiousness in their eyes and as much inhumanity Thanked him in her heart for the things he had left unsaid There is something humiliating in even an undeserved injury There was never a grey wind but there's a greyer Uses up your misery and makes you tired (Work) We ...
— Quotations From Gilbert Parker • David Widger



Words linked to "Curiousness" :   curiosity, exoticness, exotism, foreign, curious, nosiness, strange, alienism, alienage, snoopiness, prying, quality, wonder, nativeness, exoticism



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