Seeking vs Curiosity - What's the difference?
seeking | curiosity |
The act of one who seeks; a search or quest to find something.
* 1873 , Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine (volume 9, page 269)
(in combination) that seeks something specified
* 1948 , , North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States , J. B. Lippincott Company, page 25,
(obsolete) Careful, delicate construction; fine workmanship, delicacy of building.
* 1631 , John Smith, Advertisements , in Kupperman 1988, p. 81:
Inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask and learn about things by asking questions, investigating, or exploring.
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
* 1956 , , (The City and the Stars) , p 39:
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As nouns the difference between seeking and curiosity
is that seeking is the act of one who seeks; a search or quest to find something while curiosity is (obsolete) careful, delicate construction; fine workmanship, delicacy of building.As an adjective seeking
is (in combination) that seeks something specified.As a verb seeking
is .seeking
English
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(en noun)Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* heat-seeking * self-seekingVerb
(head)- While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
curiosity
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(wikipedia curiosity)Noun
(curiosities)- wee built a homely thing like a barne, set upon Cratchets, covered with rafts, sedge, and earth, so also was the walls; the best of our houses of the like curiosity , but the most part farre much worse workmanship [...].
- It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend's quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity , and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre
- "Certainly there is nothing wrong with Alvin's intelligence, but many of the things that should concern him seem to be a matter of complete indifference. On the other hand, he shows a morbid curiosity regarding subjects which we do not generally discuss."
Terrie Moffitt] [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/richie-poulton et] [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/avshalom-caspi al.
Lifelong Impact of Early Self-Control, passage=Curiosity about the power of self-control skills, which include conscientiousness, self-discipline, and perseverance, arose from recent empirical observations that preschool Head Start, an ambitious, federally funded program of special services launched in 1965 to boost the intellectual development of needy children, has failed to achieve the goal of boosting IQ scores. But the programs have unexpectedly succeeded in lowering the former pupils’ rates of teen pregnancy, school dropout, delinquency, and work absenteeism.}}