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Definition: INCURIOSITY |
INCURIOSITYNoun1. Want of curiosity or interest; inattentiveness; indifference. |
Date "INCURIOSITY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Incuriosity | Noun: incuriosity, incuriousness; Adjective: insouciance; indifference, lack of interest, disinterest. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: INCURIOSITY |
| English words defined with "INCURIOSITY": Incuriousness. (references) |
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 | Yawn; tired; exhausted; catch flies; divide; doze; drowse; expand; gap; gape; give; nap; part; sleep; snooze; spread; yaw; yawp; apathy; detachment; disgust; distaste; doldrums; dullness; ennui; fatigue; flatness; incuriosity; indifference; irksomeness; j. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "INCURIOSITY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mungesë kureshtjeje. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нелюбознателност, липса на любопитство, безразличие (disinterest, frigidity, indifference, insensibility, languor, torpidity, unconcern). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έλλειψη περιέργιασ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | közömbösség (coolness, disinterest, impassivity, indifference, listlessness, negligence, neutrality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | incuriosityay incuriosidade, falta de curiosidade, doença incurável. (various references) lipsã de interes, lipsã de curiozitate. (various references) отсутствие любопытства. (various references) neradoznalost, neljubopitljivost. (various references) merak etmezlik. (various references) tính không tò mò tính không để ý (incuriousness), tình thờ ơ tính chất không lý th (incuriousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "INCURIOSITY" (pronounced 'In*cu`ri*os"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-i-i-n-o-r-s-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: curiosity. | |
-3 letters: cousinry, incisory, ionicity, ructions, scrutiny. | |
-4 letters: cistron, citrins, citrons, citrous, citrusy, cortins, country, incisor, incrust, ironist, nitrous, noritic, ricinus, ruction, soritic, suction, tyronic. | |
-5 letters: citrin, citron, citrus, coitus, cornus, cortin, counts, county, courts, cousin, crusty, curios, curtsy, cutins, cytons, incurs, intros, ionics, iritic, iritis, ironic, nitric, nitros, orcins, outcry, outsin, ricins, rictus. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-i-i-n-o-r-s-t-u-y" | |
+5 letters: jurisdictionally. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4E 43 55 52 49 4F 53 49 54 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. -.-. ..- .-. .. --- ... .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01001110 01000011 01010101 01010010 01001001 01001111 01010011 01001001 01010100 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I N C U R I O S I T Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004E 0043 0055 0052 0049 004F 0053 0049 0054 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4348375552434953435459 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Sounds 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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