curiosity
C1UK /ˌkjʊəriˈɒsəti/US /ˌkjʊriˈɑːsəti/
Meaning
noun
a strong desire to know about something
“Children show curiosity about everything.”
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“I would say I’ve been motivated by curiosity more than anything,”
📺 Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about (TED 2022)Learn this word in the video →
“And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.”
📺 Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement AddressLearn this word in the video →
“hack then we lose so much more than data we lose the freedom to be human think about what's at stake everything you write everything you say every topic of curiosity every”
📺 2019 Stanford Commencement address by Tim CookLearn this word in the video →
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