Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Aug. 2012
The word curious we usually apply it in our language with more than one sense.
One of these habitual uses allows us to express through it to that individual who shows curiosity, either for a certain issue or who is always curious, being the same a salient characteristic of his personality.
Curiosity involves and is especially characterized by a conductinquisitive, spontaneous, where the tendency towards investigation and the exploration of those questions of interest. Thus, those who are curious will constantly be finding out the reasons for situations, decisions and finding out what this or that is dedicated to, with whom they relate, among others issues.
It should be noted that this provision It is also present in some animals, such is the case of cats, one of the species most curious they show at the time of the interaction with its surroundings, liking to inspect and enter those strangest spaces or recesses.
It is important to mention that as long as curiosity is driven to deepen some knowledge, it will be a positive characteristic for the person who has it, on the other hand, when its purpose is not the aforementioned, it can be dangerous.
On the other hand, the word curious is used to express the curiosity that something or someone arouses around him by interest or singularity of which they are carriers. For example, a child who learns to play the piano at the age of two will undoubtedly have a curiosity and will be considered curious, since it is not often that at such a young age a activity of that type.
And the other use we give to the word curious is to account for that or that one that presents a clean and careful appearance.
Between the synonyms most popular for this term we find: fisgon, neat, weird, intrusive, neat, novel, nosy, clean, and strange. And it opposes concepts such as: ordinary, discreet and dirty.
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