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Definition: Curiousness |
CuriousnessNoun1. A state of active curiosity. 2. The quality of being alien or not native: "the strangeness of a foreigner". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "curiousness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Synonyms: CuriousnessSynonyms: foreignness (n), inquisitiveness (n), strangeness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: nativeness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Curiosity | Noun: interest, thirst for knowledge, thirst for truth; curiosity, curiousness; inquiring mind; inquisitiveness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "curiousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Finnish | ihmeellisyys (wonderfulness). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Neugierde (curiosity, inquisitiveness, nosiness). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | περίεργο. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | curiosit (curiosity, inquisitiveness), stranezza (eccentricity, oddity, oddness, peculiarity, queerness, quirk, singularity, singularness, strangeness, unusualness), singolarit (singularity, strangeness). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | uriousnesscay tính muốn tìm biết tính tò mò tính kỳ lạ, tính lạ lùng (queerness, stupendousness), tính kỳ dị (singularity, weirdness), tính ham biết. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "curiousness": curiousnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "curiousness": incuriousness. (additional references) | |
Words containing "curiousness": incuriousnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "curiousness" (pronounced 'Cu"ri*ous*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-n-o-r-s-s-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: coinsures, incrosses, uncrosses, unserious. | |
-3 letters: cernuous, cessions, coenurus, coinsure, cornuses, cosiness, necrosis, neurosis, resinous, rosiness, scissure, sensuous, sourness, sucroses, sunrises. | |
-4 letters: censors, cession, coenuri, coiners, cosines, courses, cousins, cronies, crosses, cruises, cuisses, curious, cussers, essoins, incross, incuses, insures, issuers, orceins, oscines, osseins, recoins, risuses, ruinous, scissor, scouses, seisors, seniors, sensors, serious, session, sinuous. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-n-o-r-s-s-s-u-u" | |
+2 letters: curiousnesses, incuriousness, ludicrousness. | |
+3 letters: circuitousness, miraculousness, ridiculousness, scurrilousness, ungraciousness. | |
+4 letters: incongruousness, incuriousnesses, ludicrousnesses, perspicuousness, promiscuousness. | |
+5 letters: circuitousnesses, discourteousness, miraculousnesses, rambunctiousness, ridiculousnesses, scurrilousnesses, superciliousness, ungraciousnesses. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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