noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ great , intense
▪ insatiable
▪
She has an insatiable ~ about life.
▪ mild
▪ idle , mere , pure , sheer , simple
▪
‘Why do you ask?’ ‘Mere ~.’
▪ genuine
▪ open
▪
Kaylee stood staring with open ~.
▪ natural
▪
School should awaken a child's natural ~.
▪ morbid
▪ intellectual , scientific
▪ public
VERB + CURIOSITY
▪ have
▪ arouse , awaken , pique ( esp. AmE ), spark
▪
Their ~ was aroused by his strange clothes.
▪ satisfy
CURIOSITY + VERB
▪ get the better of sb , overcome sb
▪
Harry's ~ got the better of him and he unlocked the cupboard
▪ take over
▪ grow
PREPOSITION
▪ out of ~
▪
We went to the show out of ~ more than anything else.
▪ with ~
▪
The children watched us with mild ~.
▪ ~ about
▪
I needed to satisfy my ~ about what it was like to make records.
PHRASES
▪ a sense of ~