Talk:curious

RFV discussion: August–November 2013

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curious

Rfv-sense - bisexual. SemperBlotto (talk) 21:17, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

I changed the definition to bicurious Pass a Method (talk) 08:59, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Do we want to rfv that definition then? Mglovesfun (talk) 20:04, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Seems to me to need citing just as much as the original def. SpinningSpark 18:19, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

Right, rfv-sense - bicurious. 30 days from today seems fair. Mglovesfun (talk) 18:51, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

• Striking as RFV failed on both "bisexual" and "bicurious" senses: only two quotations provided. --Dan Polansky (talk) 19:44, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

very intricate: (archaic or literary)

intricate or detailed (archaic or literary)
Microsoft® Encarta® 2009

--Backinstadiums (talk) 01:59, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Split Definition #1

In general use, the meaning of curious seems to break into three categories: having curiosity, caused by curiosity, or creating curiosity, i.e. definitions 1, 2, 3.

However, in the sense of #1, suggest that one can be curious as either a state of mind or as a personal tendency, and these are different. So #1 might be split in two. People are curious, in general, in that they tend to want to know things that they do not. But one who is incurious by nature, can still be curious as to “what has it got in its pocketses?" and vice versa.