incuriosityn.

/ɪnkjʊərɪˈɒsɪti/

Etymology: < incurious adj.: compare curiosity n.French incuriosité.

The quality or fact of being incurious, or without curiosity.

1. The quality of being subjectively incurious; want or absence of care; want of curiosity or interest in things.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > [noun] > absence of

incuriosity1603

incuriousness1610

the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun]

incurie?c1550

incuriosity1603

incuriousness1610

laschety1673

carelessness1726

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xiii. 639 How soft, how gentle, and how sound a pillow is ignorance and incuriositie to rest a well composed head vpon.

1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices 25 Lest by chance, either through ignorance or incuriosity, heterodox and unsound tenets be vented.

1752 W. Warburton Serm. in Wks. (1811) IX. i. 1 But his [Pilate's] incuriosity or indifference, when Truth was offered to be laid before him as a private man,..shews him in a light much less excusable.

1821 C. Lamb Old & New Schoolmaster in Elia 1st Ser. I alone should stand unterrified, from sheer incuriosity and want of observation.

1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. vii. 398 Books..from the general incuriosity of the people found but few readers.

a. The quality of being objectively incurious, or not carefully composed; homeliness, inelegance.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [noun]

roughnessa1398

beggarliness1542

crabbedness1546

barbarousness1549

grossness1563

rusticity1565

barbarism1578

inconcinnity1616

ungracefulness1658

incuriosity1661

incomptness1669

uncouthness1672

unpoliteness1684

barbarity1706

inelegance1726

inelegancy1727

scabrousness1727

asperity1779

crudity1885

ineloquence1894

1661 Grand Deb. Rev. & Alteration Bk. Common Prayer 38 God heareth not Prayers, for the Rhetorick, and handsome Cadencies, and neatnesse of Expression, but will bear..with some Incuriosity of words.

†b. quasi-concrete. An inelegant or careless trait.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > a careless trait

incuriosity1651

1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. xv. 195 Thinking all things become a good man; even his gestures and little incuriosities.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	incuriosity
释义	incuriosityn. /ɪnkjʊərɪˈɒsɪti/ Etymology: < incurious adj.: compare curiosity n.French incuriosité. The quality or fact of being incurious, or without curiosity. 1. The quality of being subjectively incurious; want or absence of care; want of curiosity or interest in things. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > [noun] > absence of incuriosity1603 incuriousness1610 the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] incurie?c1550 incuriosity1603 incuriousness1610 laschety1673 carelessness1726 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xiii. 639 How soft, how gentle, and how sound a pillow is ignorance and incuriositie to rest a well composed head vpon. 1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices 25 Lest by chance, either through ignorance or incuriosity, heterodox and unsound tenets be vented. 1752 W. Warburton Serm. in Wks. (1811) IX. i. 1 But his [Pilate's] incuriosity or indifference, when Truth was offered to be laid before him as a private man,..shews him in a light much less excusable. 1821 C. Lamb Old & New Schoolmaster in Elia 1st Ser. I alone should stand unterrified, from sheer incuriosity and want of observation. 1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. vii. 398 Books..from the general incuriosity of the people found but few readers. 2. a. The quality of being objectively incurious, or not carefully composed; homeliness, inelegance. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [noun] roughnessa1398 beggarliness1542 crabbedness1546 barbarousness1549 grossness1563 rusticity1565 barbarism1578 inconcinnity1616 ungracefulness1658 incuriosity1661 incomptness1669 uncouthness1672 unpoliteness1684 barbarity1706 inelegance1726 inelegancy1727 scabrousness1727 asperity1779 crudity1885 ineloquence1894 1661 Grand Deb. Rev. & Alteration Bk. Common Prayer 38 God heareth not Prayers, for the Rhetorick, and handsome Cadencies, and neatnesse of Expression, but will bear..with some Incuriosity of words. †b. quasi-concrete. An inelegant or careless trait. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > a careless trait incuriosity1651 1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. xv. 195 Thinking all things become a good man; even his gestures and little incuriosities. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1603
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