Privacy vs Curiosity - What's the difference?
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The state of being private; the state of not being seen by others.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
(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:
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As nouns the difference between privacy and curiosity
is that privacy is the state of being private; the state of not being seen by others while curiosity is (obsolete) careful, delicate construction; fine workmanship, delicacy of building.privacy
English
(wikipedia privacy)Noun
See also
* mind one's own business ----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.}}