Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being incurious; want of curiosity; inattentiveness; indifference.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Lack of curiosity or interest; inattentiveness; indifference.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality or state of lacking
curiosity
Etymologies
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Examples
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Writer Martin Amis tried to put his finger on it just days after the planes plunged into the twin towers: "Various national characteristics -- self-reliance, a fiercer patriotism than any in western Europe, an assiduous geographical incuriosity -- have created a deficit of empathy for the sufferings of people far away."
Kyle G. Brown: Absence of Empathy Kyle G. Brown 2011
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Both in the era of orientalism and in the new age of incuriosity, what is lost is any sense of the different ideas that can be provided by other cultures.
India's cultural heritage is being ignored | Aditya Chakrabortty 2011
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In place of imperial condescension, we now have a kind of globalised incuriosity.
India's cultural heritage is being ignored | Aditya Chakrabortty 2011
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Writer Martin Amis tried to put his finger on it just days after the planes plunged into the twin towers: "Various national characteristics -- self-reliance, a fiercer patriotism than any in western Europe, an assiduous geographical incuriosity -- have created a deficit of empathy for the sufferings of people far away."
Kyle G. Brown: Absence of Empathy Kyle G. Brown 2011
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Of Rose's gnomic pronouncements, mystical flights of fancy and incuriosity towards her surroundings, Harold "told himself that if he wanted to avoid slapping her he must bear in mind that he was dealing with a retard".
The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge – review 2011
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The methodology behind the White House data is, as usual with any White House, opaque, and they show a strange incuriosity for time-series data.
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On the one hand, this is just more evidence of the dense-headedness and incuriosity of Garner and his ilk, the self-appointed "gatekeepers" of mainstream book criticism.
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It's hard for me to even picture a life of such submissiveness and incuriosity.
Dear Abby, Dear God 2008
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That pathology the liberal author defined as “bullet-headed, patriotic incuriosity.”
OBAMA ZOMBIES Jason Mattera 2010
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These are the regulatory responsibility of the Fed -- which, under Bernanke, displayed an appalling incuriosity and instead trusted the genius of markets and financial "innovation."
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