<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>curiosities.</li><li>the desire to learn or know about anything; inquisitiveness: The lesson provoked their curiosity about the natural world.</li><li>a curious, rare, or novel thing: Exhibits on display will include such curiosities as preserved smells, infrared briefcases, and cameras hidden in coats.</li><li>a strange, curious, or interesting quality or feature: How bankers from Nova Scotia set up in the Caribbean in the 1880s is a curiosity of financial history.</li><li>one of the human brain's many curiosities is its tendency to see faces in abstract shapes.</li><li>Archaic: carefulness; fastidiousness.</li></ul>