Contrivance vs Curiousness - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between contrivance and curiousness

is that contrivance is a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task while curiousness is inquisitiveness; curiosity.

(en noun)

a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task

a means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective

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And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, — they too have come about by godlike contrivance .

something overly artful or artificial

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(en-noun)

inquisitiveness; curiosity

(obsolete) care; carefulness; pains

* Massinger

My father's care / With curiousness and cost did train me up.

(dated) The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance.

(countable) The result or product of being curious.

* curiosity