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incuriosity|ɪnkjʊərɪˈɒsɪtɪ|
[f. incurious: cf. curiosity, F. incuriosité.]
The quality or fact of being incurious, or without curiosity.
1. The quality of being subjectively incurious; want or absence of care; want of curiosity or interest in things.
1603Florio Montaigne iii. xiii. (1632) 605 How soft, how gentle, and how sound a pillow is ignorance and incuriosity to rest a well composed head upon. 1659H. L'Estrange Alliance Div. Off. 25 Lest by chance, either through ignorance or incuriosity, heterodox and unsound tenets be vented. 1752Warburton Serm. Wks. 1811 IX. i. 1 But his [Pilate's] incuriosity or indifference, when Truth was offered to be laid before him as a private man,..shews him in a light much less excusable. 1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Old & New Schoolm., I alone should stand unterrified, from sheer incuriosity and want of observation. 1857Buckle Civiliz. I. vii. 398 Books..from the general incuriosity of the people found but few readers.
2. The quality of being objectively incurious, or not carefully composed; homeliness, inelegance.
1661Papers on Alter. Prayer Bk. 38 God heareth not Prayers, for the Rhetorick, and handsome Cadencies, and neatnesse of Expression, but will bear..with some Incuriosity of words.
†b. quasi-concr. An inelegant or careless trait.
1651Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year i. xv. 195 Thinking all things become a good man; even his gestures and little incuriosities. |