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incurious

The origin and history of incurious.

Etymology

Comes from Latin incūriōsus (“careless”), made up of in- (“un-”) and cūriōsus (“careful”). Attested since the 1560s, it originally meant ‘heedless and negligent’; the sense ‘uninquisitive’ dates from the 1610s, and the sense ‘unworthy of attention’ from 1747.

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