Meanings
- uncountableThe quality or state of lacking curiosity.
The people in these commercials are motivated by laziness and incuriosity, even when it comes to the most intimate of concerns.
2025 June 25, Ismail Muhammad, “Why Does Every Commercial for A.I. Think You’re a Moron?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN1 more example
But he wasn’t a model populist because liberal intellectuals disdained him, which is what apologists for Bush’s apparent incuriosity […] have sometimes tried to claim.
2009 January 18, Ross Douthat, “When Buckley Met Reagan”, in New York Times
Origin
- Latinincuriositas
- Englishincuriosity
From incurious + -ity, from Latin incuriositas.
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Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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