cu·ri·os·i·ty 
(kyr′ē-ŏsĭ-tē)
(kyr′ē-ŏsĭ-tē)n. pl. cu·ri·os·i·ties
1. A desire to know or learn.
2. A desire to know about people or things that do not concern one; nosiness.
3. An object that arouses interest, as by being novel or extraordinary: kept the carved bone and displayed it as a curiosity.
4. A strange or odd aspect.
5. Archaic Fastidiousness.
[Middle English curiosite, from Old French, from Latin cūriōsitās, from cūriōsus, inquisitive; see CURIOUS.]