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CURIOSITY
Definition of CURIOSITY
noun
Inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask and learn about things by asking questions, investigating, or exploring.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English curiosite, variant of curiouste, from Anglo-Norman curiouseté, from Latin cūriōsitātem, accusative of cūriōsitās. By surface analysis, curious + -ity. Displaced native Old English firwitt.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,176)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CURIOSITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 35 boards so far. 94 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
CURIOSITY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CIIORSTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start CURIOS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found CURIOSITY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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