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Incurious

adj

Definitions

Adjective

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
Apathetic or indifferent.

Adjective

1
showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity wordnet

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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