Incurious

adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Lacking interest or curiosity; uninterested.

    "A genuine Londoner is the most incurious animal in nature. Divide your acquaintance into two parts; the one set will never have seen Westminster Abbey—the other will be equally ignorant of St. Paul's."

  2. 2
    Apathetic or indifferent.
Adjective
  1. 1
    showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity wordnet

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uninterestednoncuriousuncuriousabsentabsentmindedabstracted

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"The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion."

Etymology

From Latin incūriōsus (“careless”), from in- (“un-”) and cūriōsus (“careful”). Attested since the 1560s, originally meaning ‘heedless and negligent.’ The sense of ‘uninquisitive’ dates from the 1610s, and the sense of ‘unworthy of attention’ from 1747.

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