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Why is it spelled curiosity instead of curiousity? As far as English is concerned, the root of curiosity is curiosity It was not formed from curious The real question here is where the latter got its second u from The French original did not have it (Edit: and the answer to that, of course, is rather boring: by analogy with all the other -ous words Dangerous, numerous, devious, perilous, dubious, serious, oblivious, murderous, hilarious
Word describing a distinct absence of intellectual curiosity? I found some ideas from the definition of incurious: Lacking intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity; uninterested But these tend to be opposites of more common words Are there any unique words to describe the quality of a pronounced absence of intellectual curiosity?
Is there a word to describe a person who is always curious? "Insatiable curiosity" is the term I've most often seen used in this sense There are nouns such as polymath which refer to people who know about lots of diverse topics, but they don't directly imply an insatiable curiosity