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单词 incuriosity
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incuriosityn.

/ɪnkjʊərɪˈɒsɪti/
Etymology: < incurious adj.: compare curiosity n.French 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.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > [noun] > absence of
incuriosity1603
incuriousness1610
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun]
incurie?c1550
incuriosity1603
incuriousness1610
laschety1673
carelessness1726
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xiii. 639 How soft, how gentle, and how sound a pillow is ignorance and incuriositie to rest a well composed head vpon.
1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices 25 Lest by chance, either through ignorance or incuriosity, heterodox and unsound tenets be vented.
1752 W. Warburton Serm. in 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.
1821 C. Lamb Old & New Schoolmaster in Elia 1st Ser. I alone should stand unterrified, from sheer incuriosity and want of observation.
1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. vii. 398 Books..from the general incuriosity of the people found but few readers.
2.
a. The quality of being objectively incurious, or not carefully composed; homeliness, inelegance.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [noun]
roughnessa1398
beggarliness1542
crabbedness1546
barbarousness1549
grossness1563
rusticity1565
barbarism1578
inconcinnity1616
ungracefulness1658
incuriosity1661
incomptness1669
uncouthness1672
unpoliteness1684
barbarity1706
inelegance1726
inelegancy1727
scabrousness1727
asperity1779
crudity1885
ineloquence1894
1661 Grand Deb. Rev. & Alteration Bk. Common Prayer 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-concrete. An inelegant or careless trait.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > a careless trait
incuriosity1651
1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. xv. 195 Thinking all things become a good man; even his gestures and little incuriosities.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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