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Inquisitiveness vs Prying - What's the difference?

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Inquisitiveness is a related term of prying.


As nouns the difference between inquisitiveness and prying

is that inquisitiveness is the quality of being inquisitive; curiosity while prying is the act of one who pries.

As a verb prying is

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inquisitiveness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being inquisitive; curiosity.

    • Synonyms

    * curiosity

    prying

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who pries.
  • * 1992 , Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights (page 280)
    • That it is wrongful to do a thing in that it is grubby in the way in which pryings for the sake of prurient interest are grubby, does not by itself make doing the thing an infringement of a claim.