English Dictionary

curiosity

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌkjʊəɹiˈɒsəti/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞 廃用

(uncountable) Inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask and learn about things by asking questions, investigating, or exploring. / A unique or extraordinary object which arouses interest.

日本語の意味

物事に対する探求心や好奇心を持ち、質問を通して学び、調査や探検をする傾向 / 興味を引く独特で非凡な対象、珍品

Her curiosity led her to stay after the lecture to ask more questions.

彼女の好奇心が、講義の後に残ってさらに質問をするよう彼女を促した。

意味（1）

(uncountable) Inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask and learn about things by asking questions, investigating, or exploring.

It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend's quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre

意味（2）

A unique or extraordinary object which arouses interest.

He put the strangely shaped rock in his curiosity cabinet.

意味（3）

(obsolete) Careful, delicate construction; fine workmanship, delicacy of building.

wee built a homely thing like a barne, set upon Cratchets, covered with rafts, sedge, and earth, so also was the walls; the best of our houses of the like curiosity, but the most part farre much worse workmanship […]

curiosities （ plural ）