Definition of "inquisitiveness" [in•quis•i•tive•ness]

• The quality of being inquisitive; curiosity. (noun)

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• "The caution is all the more necessary, as it is precisely the foreigner, who approaches a new language with a certain prying inquisitiveness, that is most apt to see life in vestigial features which the native is either completely unaware of or feels merely as dead form."
• "I only wish I had that kind of inquisitiveness and imagination."
• "Are you proud that he's got that kind of inquisitiveness?"