Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Curiousness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Curiousness \Cu"ri*ous*ness\, n.
1. Carefulness; painstaking. [Obs.]
My father's care With curiousness and cost did train
me up. -- Massinger.
2. The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship;
ingenuity of contrivance.
3. Inquisitiveness; curiosity.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
curiousness
n 1: a state of active curiosity [syn: {inquisitiveness}]
2: the quality of being alien or not native: "the strangeness
of a foreigner" [syn: {foreignness}, {strangeness}] [ant:
{nativeness}]
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