Curiosity vs Individuality - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Careful, delicate construction; fine workmanship, delicacy of building.
* 1631 , John Smith, Advertisements , in Kupperman 1988, p. 81:
Inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask and learn about things by asking questions, investigating, or exploring.
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
* 1956 , , (The City and the Stars) , p 39:
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= A unique or extraordinary object which arouses interest.
(uncountable) The characteristics which contribute to the differentiation or distinction of someone or something from a group of otherwise comparable identity.
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* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 (countable) A person.
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As nouns the difference between curiosity and individuality
is that curiosity is careful, delicate construction; fine workmanship, delicacy of building while individuality is the characteristics which contribute to the differentiation or distinction of someone or something from a group of otherwise comparable identity.curiosity
English
(wikipedia curiosity)Noun
(curiosities)- wee built a homely thing like a barne, set upon Cratchets, covered with rafts, sedge, and earth, so also was the walls; the best of our houses of the like curiosity , but the most part farre much worse workmanship [...].
- It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend's quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity , and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre
- "Certainly there is nothing wrong with Alvin's intelligence, but many of the things that should concern him seem to be a matter of complete indifference. On the other hand, he shows a morbid curiosity regarding subjects which we do not generally discuss."
Terrie Moffitt] [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/richie-poulton et] [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/avshalom-caspi al.
Lifelong Impact of Early Self-Control, passage=Curiosity about the power of self-control skills, which include conscientiousness, self-discipline, and perseverance, arose from recent empirical observations that preschool Head Start, an ambitious, federally funded program of special services launched in 1965 to boost the intellectual development of needy children, has failed to achieve the goal of boosting IQ scores. But the programs have unexpectedly succeeded in lowering the former pupils’ rates of teen pregnancy, school dropout, delinquency, and work absenteeism.}}
Synonyms
* inquisitivenessAntonyms
* ignoranceDerived terms
* curiosity killed the catindividuality
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citation, passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}