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noun a state in which you want to learn more about something
noun something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
originFrom Middle English curiosite, variant of curiouste, from Anglo-Norman curiouseté, from Latin cūriōsitātem, accusative of cūriōsitās. By surface analysis, curious + -ity. Displaced native Old English firwitt.
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