{
    "term": "curiosity",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a strong desire to know about something",
            "sensetop": "curiosity (about something)curiosity (to do something)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Children show curiosity about everything."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I felt a certain curiosity to see what would happen next."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The letter wasn't addressed to me but I opened it **out of curiosity**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His answer did not **satisfy my curiosity** at all."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sophie's **curiosity was aroused** by the mysterious phone call."
                },
                {
                    "text": "intellectual curiosity"
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘Why do you ask?’ ‘Oh, just **idle curiosity**’ *(= no particular reason)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Harry's curiosity got the better of him and he unlocked the cupboard"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I needed to satisfy my curiosity about what it was like to make records."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Kaylee stood staring with open curiosity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "School should awaken a child's natural curiosity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has an insatiable curiosity about life."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The children watched us with mild curiosity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their curiosity was aroused by his strange behaviour."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We went to the show out of curiosity more than anything else."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["great", "intense", "insatiable"],
                "verb + curiosity": ["have", "arouse", "awaken"],
                "curiosity + verb": [
                    "get the better of somebody",
                    "overcome somebody",
                    "take over"
                ],
                "preposition": [
                    "out of curiosity",
                    "with curiosity",
                    "curiosity about"
                ],
                "phrases": ["a sense of curiosity"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an unusual and interesting thing",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The museum is full of historical curiosities."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to tell somebody not to ask questions or try to find out about things that do not involve them",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌkjʊəriˈɒsəti/",
                "audio": "cu/curiosity/curiosity__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌkjʊriˈɑːsəti/",
                "audio": "cu/curiosity/curiosity__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French curiousete, from Latin curiositas, from curiosus ‘careful’, from cura ‘care’."
}