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curiousness|ˈkjʊərɪəsnɪs|
[f. as curiously adv. + -ness.]
1. The quality or condition of being subjectively curious:
†a. Carefulness; diligence; skilfulness; scrupulosity; fastidiousness. Obs.
c1440York Myst. xxix. 31 Of þe coriousnesse of þat karle þer is carping. 1528Tindale Parab. Wicked Mammon Wks. I. 58 Be diligent therefore that thou be not deceived with curiousness. 1555Eden Decades 136 Not theyr ignoraunce and slothfulnes but pernicious curiousnes. 1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer i. E iij b, To reprehend hys curyousnesse in hys workes. 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. vi. 1937 They dresse Their bodies, with such tedious curiousnesse. 1692Dryden St. Evremont's Ess. 35 He joined the Curiousness of Negotiations to the Science of War. a1698Temple Ess. Gardening Wks. 1731 I. 176 Much Curiousness or Care, to introduce the Fruits of Foreign Climates.
b. Inquisitiveness: often as a fault; = curiosity 5.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. 302 Y⊇ curiousnesse of men..which can by no stoppes be restrained from wandring into forbidden compasses. a1640Sir W. Alexander Hours i. lxii. (T.), Ah! curiousness, first cause of all our ill. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xx, We had all a little more curiousness than you had. 1859Tennyson Vivien 362 Howsoe'er In children a great curiousness be well, Who have to learn themselves and all the world. 1866J. H. Newman Gerontius iii, I fain would know..were it but meet to ask, And not a curiousness.
2. The quality of being objectively curious:
†a. Beauty; elaborateness; exquisiteness.
b. Strangeness, novelty, oddness.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋372 (Harl.) In greet preciousnes of vessel & in curiousnesse of vessel and of mynstralcye. 1550Latimer Last. Serm. bef. Edw. VI, Wks. I. 222 In this sermon of Jonas is no great curiousness, no great clerkliness. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry ii. i. (1660) 50 The curiousness and excellency of their workmanship. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 193 The unutterable curiousness of its [the world's] frame and workmanship. 1862Parthenon 26 July 401 The bindings..are remarkable both for their curiousness, beauty, and fine preservation. 1874Helps Soc. Press. iii. 35 The appreciation of rarity and curiousness. |