A state in which you want to learn more about something.

synoniem: wonder.

Roget 455: interest, thirst for knowledge, thirst for truth; curiosity, curiousness; inquiring mind; inquisitiveness.    omnivorous intellect, devouring mind.    [person who desires knowledge] inquirer; sightseer; quidnunc [Lat.], newsmonger, Paul Pry, eavesdropper; gossip etc. (news) 532; rubberneck; intellectual; seeker [inquirer after religious knowledge], seeker after truth.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 507: expectation, expectance, expectancy; anticipation, reckoning, calculation; foresight etc. 510.    contemplation, prospection^†, lookout; prospect, perspective, horizon, vista; destiny etc. 152.    suspense, waiting, abeyance; curiosity etc. 455; anxious expectation, ardent expectation, eager expectation, breathless expectation, sanguine expectation; torment of Tantalus.    hope etc. 858; trust etc. (belief) 484; auspices etc. (prediction) 511; assurance, confidence, presumption, reliance.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 872: prodigy, phenomenon; wonder, wonderment; marvel, miracle; monster etc. (unconformity) 83; curiosity, lion, sight, spectacle; jeu de theatre [Fr.], coup de theatre; gazingstock^†; sign; St.    Elmo's fire, St.    Elmo's light; portent etc. 512.    bursting of a shell, bursting of a bomb; volcanic eruption, peal of thunder; thunder-clap, thunder-bolt.    what no words can paint; wonders of the world; annus mirabilis [Lat.]; dignus vindice nodus [Lat.].    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: curiositeit, nieuwsgierigheid
Pools: ciekawość

Something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting.

synoniemen: curio, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity.

Roget 83: nonconformity etc. 82; unconformity, disconformity; unconventionality, informality, abnormity^†, abnormality, anomaly; anomalousness etc. adj.^†; exception, peculiarity; infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage; teratism^†, eccentricity, bizarrerie^†, oddity, je ne sais quoi [Fr.], monster, monstrosity, rarity; freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant; rouser, snorter [U.S.].    individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism.    aberration; irregularity; variety; singularity; exemption; salvo etc. (qualification) 469.    nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch^†, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae [Lat.], rara avis [Lat.], queer fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste, half-blood, half-breed; metis [Lat.], crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto; tertium quid [Lat.], hermaphrodite.    [Mythical animals] phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur; griffin, griffon; centaur; saggittary^†; kraken, cockatrice, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent; mermaid, merman, merfolk^†; unicorn; Cyclops, men whose heads do grow beneath their men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders" [Othello]; teratology.    [unconformable to the surroundings] fish out of water; neither one thing nor another, neither fish nor fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring; one in a million, one in a way, one in a thousand; outcast, outlaw; off the beaten track; oasis.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: curiositeit, curiosum, rara avis, rariteit, zeldzaamheid
Pools: cacko, cudo