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

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:4.5 / 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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.2 / 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

Matched Categories

1. • Cognitive State

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 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 WordsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. curiositynoun

   Antonyms:
   incuriosity, uninquisitiveness

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

How to use curiosity in a sentence?

1. James Stephens:

   Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

2. Barry Williams -LRB- Greg -RRB-:

   I always hear, ‘ Hey man, I grew up with you. I grew up with your show, ’ we have three generations of people that grew up with us at different times. There are a lot of people our age, some a little younger than that and the grandkids. There has always been a sense of curiosity about us. Now that we’ve grown up, what are our lives like ? What’s that world like when the Brady kids are moms, dad, grandmas and grandpas ?

3. Lisa Tobin:

   If you listen to the show, it's the same curiosity and ambition and desire to get to the heart of questions and ideas, i think the evolution has just been in the more people that you bring onto the team, the more ambitiously you can answer those questions.

4. Jason Silva:

   Curiosity and wonderment are a big part of the human condition, but often as we ‘grow up’ we tend to lose this connection to the wonder of it all, i often explore big ideas in my series Shots of Awe to wake people up, and I think bringing this sensibility to an actual baby's wonderstruck face struck a nerve... I'm thrilled.

5. Joe Daniels:

   It was a tremendous visit, and you could see in, really, both of their eyes, the sort of care and curiosity they had for the story of what happened and the people who died that day.

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