English noun: curiousness | |||
| 1. | curiousness (cognition) a state of active curiosity | ||
| Synonyms | inquisitiveness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | curiosity, wonder | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | nosiness, prying, snoopiness | ||
| 2. | curiousness (attribute) the quality of being alien or not native | ||
| Samples | The strangeness of a foreigner. | ||
| Synonyms | foreignness, strangeness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | quality | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | alienage, alienism, exoticism, exoticness, exotism | ||
| Attribute | foreign, strange | ||
| Antonyms | nativeness | ||