Curiosity
Red planet crawler
Curiosity is the desire to know or learn something.
It drives questions, exploration, and investigation: Her curiosity about the universe led her to astronomy.
Curiosity can be idle—wanting to know simply for the sake of knowing—or purposeful.
The word sometimes carries a hint of nosiness: I'm not being nosy, just curious.
A curiosity is also an unusual or interesting object: The shop was full of antique curiosities.
Eager desire to learn
- questioningSeeking answers through inquiry
- wonderAmazement or curiosity
- explorationTraveling through unknown regions
- investigationFormal examination of facts
inquiry · probing · seeking · searching · fascination · interest · learning · discovery
Testable proposed explanation
- experimentationSystematic testing of ideas
- researchSystematic fact-finding effort
- investigationFormal examination of facts
- inquiryRequest for information
discovery · observation · methodology · empirical · laboratory · Newton · Einstein · Feynman
Amazement or curiosity
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- questionsRequests for information
- whyReason-seeking query
- discoveryAct of finding something
exploration · learning · innocence · amazement · fascination · play · experimentation · toddler
Disturbing, death-obsessed
- deathCessation of life
- gruesomeCausing horror and disgust
- darkAbsence of light
- fascinationIntense absorbed interest
spectacle · rubbernecking · true crime · autopsy · forensic · gothic · obsession · taboo
Traditional saying expressing truth
- killedCaused to die
- satisfactionState of fulfilled desires
- felineOf or like cats
- mischiefPlayful troublesome behavior
trouble · warning · caution · nosiness · prying · snooping · risk · danger
Red planet, war deity
- NASAFederal space exploration bureau
- landingDescent's final moment
- explorationTraveling through unknown regions
- JPLRobotic spacecraft research facility
spacecraft · mission · wheels · terrain · samples · Perseverance · red planet · soil
inquisitiveness
Eager desire to learn
- questioningSeeking answers through inquiry
- wonderAmazement or curiosity
- explorationTraveling through unknown regions
investigation · inquiry · probing · seeking · searching · fascination · interest · learning · discovery · research
hypothesis
Testable proposed explanation
- experimentationSystematic testing of ideas
- researchSystematic fact-finding effort
- investigationFormal examination of facts
inquiry · discovery · observation · methodology · empirical · laboratory · Newton · Einstein · Feynman · breakthrough
wonder
Amazement or curiosity
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- questionsRequests for information
- whyReason-seeking query
discovery · exploration · learning · innocence · amazement · fascination · play · experimentation · toddler · pointing
macabre
Disturbing, death-obsessed
fascination · spectacle · rubbernecking · true crime · autopsy · forensic · gothic · obsession · taboo · disturbing
proverb
Traditional saying expressing truth
- killedCaused to die
- satisfactionState of fulfilled desires
- felineOf or like cats
mischief · trouble · warning · caution · nosiness · prying · snooping · risk · danger · idiom
Mars
Red planet, war deity
- NASAFederal space exploration bureau
- landingDescent's final moment
- explorationTraveling through unknown regions
JPL · spacecraft · mission · wheels · terrain · samples · Perseverance · red planet · soil · rocks
collection
Gathered set of items
- specimensRepresentative items for examination
- curiositiesUnusual things worth examining
- odditiesUnusual or strange things
artifacts · rarities · display · Victorian · museum · natural history · taxidermy · shells · bones · minerals
- robotsrobot, android, humanoid, droid, automaton
- spacecraftspacecraft, starships, spaceship, Voyager 1, rocket ships
- Marsred planet, Mars surface, Martian soil, Martian atmosphere, Olympus Mons
- NASAApollo, Artemis, astronauts, Cape Canaveral, Hubble
- roboticsrobot, android, humanoid, robotic arm, servo
- space explorationrockets, Saturn V, satellites, mission, Falcon Heavy
Curiosityindifference
Lack of interest
apathy · disinterest · incuriosity · unconcern · disregard
Curiosityboredom
Weary disinterest from monotony
ennui · listlessness · lethargy · jadedness · world-weariness
Curiosityclosed-mindedness
Refusal to consider other views
dogmatism · incuriousness · willful ignorance · narrow-mindedness · complacency
- morbid curiosityInterest in disturbing things
- intellectual curiosityDesire to learn and understand
- curiosity gap
- curiosity shop
- curiosity killed catWarning against excessive inquiry
- scientific curiosityUrge to explore systematically
curious, curiously, curiousness, incurious, curio, curios, cure, curable, incurable