Definition of Curiosity

Cupid

CURIOSITY noun

	An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Curse

Regular definition:

CURIOSITY:
?kju?r???s?t? n. (pl. -ies) 1 an eager desire to know; inquisitiveness. 2 strangeness. 3 a strange, rare, or interesting object. [ME f. OF curiouset÷ f. L curiositas -tatis (as CURIOUS)]

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