Curiosity Can Be

Interest

Searching

Wondering

Questioning

Inquiringness

Investigation

Interestedness

Inquisitiveness

Inquisitive thinking

Thirst for knowledge

A motivational desire

The love of knowledge

Mental acquisitiveness

Being led down new paths

Not stopping questioning

A desire to know or learn

The engine of achievement

An appetite after knowledge

The forerunner of discovery

Kindling the fire of the mind

The first passion and the last

Pausing to meditate and to inquire

A universal core character strength

A desire to know about people or things

The point at which a problem is articulated

Learning and desire to acquire knowledge and skill

The love of variety, or curiosity of seeing new things

Carrying forward the mind to fresh inquiry and knowledge

Inquisitiveness excited by having its gratification deferred

Keeping moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things

A passion or an appetite for knowledge, information, and understanding

Stopping and interrogating, and forcing something to declare its nature

One of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect

When there is something new to be discovered in the backdrop of our daily life

When "I wonder what..." is replaced by "What if I..." or "Why don't we try to..."

A delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, that stands mainly in need of freedom

Setting out to discover the why of something, and to transform our pleasure into knowledge

A result of cognitive conflict or a gap in knowledge that is elicited by a stimuli or situation

A strong desire to see something novel, or to discover something unknown, either by research or inquiry

The driving force behind not only human development, but developments in science, language, and industry

Diving into the bowels of the earth, exploring the mine, and speculating on the formation of the world itself

A desire to gratify the senses with a sight of what is new or unusual, or to gratify the mind with new discoveries

A fragile thing, easily dissipated by more pressing concerns unless it's encouraged and guided into subsequent inquiry

A feeling which causes us not to be content with the beauty and fragrance of the flower, but which prompts us to look under the rose

The great instrument God has provided to remove that ignorance we were born with and which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make us dull and useless creatures