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Why is it spelled curiosity instead of curiousity? As far as English is concerned, the root of curiosity is curiosity It was not formed from curious The real question here is where the latter got its second u from The French original did not have it (Edit: and the answer to that, of course, is rather boring: by analogy with all the other -ous words Dangerous, numerous, devious, perilous, dubious, serious, oblivious, murderous, hilarious
Is there a word to describe a person who is always curious? "Insatiable curiosity" is the term I've most often seen used in this sense There are nouns such as polymath which refer to people who know about lots of diverse topics, but they don't directly imply an insatiable curiosity
Suggest a word for the dark side of curiosity [duplicate] I am looking for a suitable term for quot;negative curiosity quot; that represents the concept of wandering and prying in the workplace Is there a common word? For example, when an employee is pr
Was “tickle (someones) fancy” originally a double entendre? Must that word which should search the Conscience tickle the fancy, and feed a worme of curiosity that never dies? From Christopher Love, The Naturall Mans Case Stated, or, An Exact Map of the Little World Man Considered in Both His Capacities, Either in the State of Nature or Grace (1652):
Correct usage of replacing cuss words with symbols Just out of curiosity, is there a specific way to do this I've noticed sometimes there isn't a specific number of symbols but normally the number of symbols correspond to the number of letters in the cuss word E g : Wow dude, you are such an #%-hole!