What are some opposite words for curiosity?

Antonyms for curiosity
ˌkyʊər iˈɒs ɪ ticu·rios·i·ty

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Wiktionary4.5 / 9 votes

  1. curiositynoun

    Antonyms:
    ignorance

    Synonyms:
    inquisitiveness

  2. curiositynoun

    Careful, delicate construction; fine workmanship, delicacy of building.

    Antonyms:
    ignorance

    Synonyms:
    inquisitiveness

  3. curiositynoun

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

    Antonyms:
    ignorance

    Synonyms:
    inquisitiveness

  4. curiositynoun

    A unique or extraordinary object which arouses interest.

    He kept the strangely shaped rock as a curiosity.

    Synonyms:
    inquisitiveness

    Antonyms:
    ignorance

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.2 / 5 votes

  1. curiosity

    Antonyms:
    indifference, heedlessness, disregard, abstraction, absence, weed, drug, dirt, cipher, bagatelle, song

    Synonyms:
    inquisitiveness, interest, wonder, marvel, interrogativeness, rarity, phenomenon, celebrity, oddity, lion

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Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 2 votes

  1. curiosity, wondernoun

    a state in which you want to learn more about something

    Synonyms:
    peculiarity, oddment, wonderment, wonder, marvel, curio, oddity, admiration, rarity

  2. curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, raritynoun

    something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting

    Synonyms:
    rarity, tenuity, remainder, wonder, end, distinguishing characteristic, distinctiveness, rareness, curio, oddness, specialty, quirkiness, low density, queerness, oddity, crotchet, specialness, distinctive feature, remnant, peculiarity, oddment, infrequency, quirk, speciality

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words4.0 / 1 vote

  1. curiositynoun

    Antonyms:
    incuriosity, uninquisitiveness

    Synonyms:
    inquisitiveness, curio, freak, rarity, rara avis, wonder

How to use curiosity in a sentence?

  1. Jeff Bezos:

    No one asked for AWS. No one, turns out the world was in fact ready and hungry for an offering like AWS but didn't know it. We had a hunch, followed our curiosity, took the necessary financial risks, and began building -- reworking, experimenting, and iterating countless times as we proceeded.

  2. Donald Trump:

    He said he'd like me to join his Chamber and I said, 'how much is it, just out of curiosity?' He said people pay from $25,000 to $2 million. I said 'you've gotta be kidding,' good luck to them.

  3. Oscar Auliq-Ice:

    Curiosity, in its purest form, also nurtures the essence of creativity. It encourages us to view things from new perspectives, to imagine the unimaginable, and to create what has never been created before.

  4. Kevin Lewis:

    Well see if Curiosity makes it up there, or if we get pieces of that upper unit that roll down the mountain, but we may have to do a bit more exploring to find such a transition.

  5. Phil Keoghan:

    It gave me a curiosity in meeting people, interesting people, and that ultimately has determined how I've traveled, because what I've realized is, it doesn't matter where you go in the world, it doesn't matter where you are but who you're there with.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#1018drug
#1225song
#4642absence
#7182dirt
#8871weed
#11981ignorance
#14466curiosity
#15864abstraction
#18414disregard
#23915cipher
#25345indifference
#111042bagatelle
#271402heedlessness

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