Словарь синонимов английского языка - curiosity

(n) 1. inquisitiveness, interest: His insadiable curiosity next led him to study astronomy. 2. snooping, prying, peeping, intrusiveness, meddlesomeness, interference, Colloq nosiness, Nosy Parkerism: Curiosity killed the cat. 3. curio, oddity, rarity, conversation piece, objet de virtu or vertu, objet d'art, found object; bric-