incuriosity means the quality or state of lacking curiosity. It carries an Arena rating of 1503, earned across 46 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, incuriosity ranks #2,696 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words, #3,249 of 17,138 for Most Incisive Words, #5,777 of 17,131 for Scariest Words, #5,947 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books.
Why “incuriosity” is a great word
INCURIOSITY — [Noun] A state of intellectual inertia, characterized by a specific lack of the urge to question or discover. From the Latin incuriositas, from incuriosus ("careless, indifferent"), from in- ("un-") and curiosus ("careful, curious"). Attested in English from around 1600. Unlike "apathy," which blankets the emotions, or "indifference," which signals neutrality of concern, incuriosity is the precise, willful closing of a door in the mind. It is the unopened book gathering dust, the unanswered question left to dissolve in silence, the turning away from the star-strewn sky to contemplate only the well-worn floor—a conscious, comfortable surrender of wonder.
Etymology
From incurious + -ity, from Latin incuriositas.
noun
- The quality or state of lacking curiosity.e.g.“But he wasn’t a model populist because liberal intellectuals disdained him, which is what apologists for Bush’s apparent incuriosity […] have sometimes tried to claim.” — 2009 January 18, Ross Douthat, “When Buckley Met Reagan”, in New York Times:
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