| n. | 1. | Carefulness; painstaking. |
| 2. | The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance. | |
| 3. | Inquisitiveness; curiosity. |
| Noun | 1. | curiousness - a state of active curiosity Synonyms: inquisitiveness |
| 2. | curiousness - the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner" Synonyms: foreignness, strangeness |