(n.) The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.
(n.) Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness.
(n.) That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention.
Example Sentences:
(1) Squamous cell carcinoma of the colorectum is a rare pathologic curiosity.
(2) The Glaxo Australia-Baker Medical Research Institute Agreement is for curiosity driven research in specified areas of vascular pharmacology of interest to Glaxo Group Research.
(3) There may be cases in which youngsters have travelled overseas perhaps out of curiosity or with an interest but upon arriving shall we say in Turkey, through which a lot of these people are staged, get cold feet and decide they don’t want to pursue that objective.
(4) Interview with Donald Hutera In other words "Maliphant's choreography slips under our guard, arouses our curiosity and hones our gaze, without us realising the force of its aim."
(5) Miller is suing the NoW's parent company, News Group, and Mulcaire, accusing them of breaching her privacy and of harassing her "solely for the commercial purpose of profiting from obtaining private information about her and to satisfy the prurient curiosity of members of the public regarding the private life of a well-known individual".
(6) Active reading of the micrograph is aided by a curiosity in the functional significance of the various details of the picture; there has to be a dialogue between the mind and the eye concerning the structural elements and their significance.
(7) Curiosity now has the chance, for example, to do some closer up, but still remote, measurements, using the ChemCam instrument with lasers, to look at composition.
(8) It is being stressed that whereas the significance of these unusual organelles remains uncertain, their widespread occurrence may indicate that their role is more important than was believed previously, and they should cease being a curiosity only.
(9) If you look at the sponsorship and marketing, look at the bidding contracts, and you will see more,” he said after Pound had laid out just how badly the IAAF’s processes and a collective lack of curiosity had failed to deal with the corruption in their midst.
(10) What it did, at least at first, was exaggerate my natural curiosity and need for emotional affection.
(11) Yet the mating of zebrafish has implications that go far beyond mere biological curiosity.
(12) A morphologic curiosity is presented in a polypoid gastric tumor combined with adenocarcinoma and carcinoid tumor.
(13) Her rhetoric hits a modest peak in the introductory remarks: "This book is the result of a long practical experience, a lively curiosity and a real love for cookery.
(14) There’s also Birdsong, an e-commerce platform selling high-quality products made by women’s charities – and Curiosity Club, an education venture which wants to cultivate an inquisitive nature and passion for learning in children from less privileged socioeconomic backgrounds.
(15) The ties between the two are more than a historical curiosity, says Benjamin Young, a contributor to NK News whose Masters research at the State University of New York: the college at Brockport, uncovered surprising details of the relationship.
(16) For half a century the systolic click and late systolic murmur lay dormant as innocent auscultatory curiosities.
(17) We want them to gain the following: an understanding of how to use technology to enhance learning; an appreciation for, and facility in, the arts; scientific curiosity; an appreciation and knowledge of their cultures and those of others; and the capacity to think critically.
(18) What I want to do, inasmuch as I want to do anything, is go on satisfying my curiosity."
(19) Seahorses are threatened by overexploitation for traditional medicines, aquariums and curiosities, accidental capture by fishing fleets, and degradation of their habitats.
(20) Such curiosity is not a big ask, and demanding such rigorous thinking from tutors seems a much more effective way of getting diverse students into top universities than creating a mythical list of "better" subjects, writing them into the league tables and thereby sanctioning the lazy dismissal of anyone who does not fit the mould.
(a.) The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime.
(a.) See Wroth.
(v. t.) To anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our members have had to bear the brunt of the passengers’ wrath, because the senior executives and staff went running for cover,” he said.
(2) "I take complete responsibility and offer nothing but love and contrition and I hope that now Jonathan and the BBC will endure less forensic wrath.
(3) Revolutionary forces also distributed leaflets at checkpoints leading into the city that read, "Dear Muslims, avoid God's wrath.
(4) We believe that there is a connection between those who traffic the children to Italy and those who employ them at the markets, so we are planning an investigation to establish these links.” The fear of their families facing the wrath of the traffickers is driving some to find quicker ways of repaying their debt.
(5) That means transcending their own need for status and recognition, facing the wrath of those seeking to maintain the status quo and doing what they know in their hearts to be right.
(6) Addressing the crowd, communist party leader Aleka Papariga warned that whatever government emerged in the coming days would face the wrath of the people if it dared to pass more belt-tightening measures.
(7) This would blow their chance to dismantle the signature policy achievement of the Obama presidency, leaving them facing the wrath of constituents and potential trouble at the ballot box.
(8) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
(9) Adding to controversy, an MP caused an uproar after by telling parliament alcohol and revealing uniforms should be banned from all Malaysian flights to avoid "Allah's wrath".
(10) It’s a part of the American epic immortalised in John Steinbeck’s bitter novel, The Grapes of Wrath .
(11) Nick Clegg's MPs are already nervous about the wrath of voters and party members who will protest that they didn't support the Lib Dems for this.
(12) A leading Greek bishop has warned lawmakers that they risk incurring the wrath of God – and will be excommunicated – if they vote in favour of legalising same-sex partnerships.
(13) On the way back, in his speech to the Commons, he had to appease the wrath of Nick Clegg and show his government's credentials to Europe.
(14) 10.50am GMT Pro-Moris rally Morsi has incurred the wrath of many lawyers - some of whom are striking - by issuing the decree granting him widespread powers and simultaneously curbing those of the judiciary.
(15) cricketed Gatsby is one of the great books of the 20th century but you can't give just one novel the distinction of " Great American novel " because at different points in time that could be applied to many different books, including To Kill A Mockingbird , Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , The Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath ; Gatsby isn't even Fitzgerald's best work: go read This Side of Paradise and Tender is the Night.
(16) This could go back to being desert, the way it was before irrigation.” Many farmers are descendants of migrants who fled here to escape the 1930s dust bowl, a trauma immortalised in John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath.
(17) He directed the paper through choppy waters in its relationship with the Bush administration, earning the then president's wrath with a steady stream of scoops on the US government's use of phone tapping and torture.
(18) In normal circumstances, this would incur the wrath of those papers.
(19) David Cameron will risk the wrath of the drinks industry and free marketeers today by announcing his government is to introduce legislation setting a minimum alcohol price of 40p a unit in England – enough to add £135 to the annual bill of a heavy drinker.
(20) "No one should die in sin … This must be taken into consideration: we cannot stop Allah's wrath."