inquisitiveness, fascination, wonderment, nosiness, wanderlust, passion, puzzlement, excitement, enthusiasm, bafflement, strangeness, lust, imagination, mystification, bashfulness, skepticism, prurience, desire, curiousness, obsession, incredulousness, perplexity, jealousy, infatuation, altruism, astonishment, squeamishness, restlessness, pique, cynicism, adoration, intrigue, revulsion, instinct, bewilderment, disinterest, exoticness, amazement, indignation, admiration, shyness, sheepishness, wariness, playfulness, idiosyncrasy, nostalgia, latent hostility, jadedness, affection, bookishness, bloodlust, idealism, exuberance, weirdness, thirst, enchantment, ambivalence, hankerings, paranoia, devotion, animal magnetism, interest, narcissism, reverence, funniness, titillation, cheekiness, misgiving, enjoyment, imaginativeness, incredulity, longing, infuriation, contrariness, fandom, bemusement, irrepressibility, rebelliousness, defensiveness, mischievousness, bedazzlement, scepticism, obsessiveness, edification, amusement, apprehensiveness, boundlessness, dubiousness, agelessness, aliveness, trepidation, horniness, mesmerism, despondence, precocity, bizarreness, captivation, inventiveness, diffidence, fervor, yearning, hobby, envy, apprehension, distaste, liking, disgust, dislike, fear, compassion, craving, disquiet, emotion

collector's item, desire to know, involvement, lust for learning, piece de resistance, showpiece, thirst for knowledge

., allium cepa viviparum, annoyer, brimming, curious, curiously, curiousness, desire to know, egyptian onion, esurient, incurious, inquisitive, inquisitively, inquisitiveness, interest, interested, interrogatively, intriguing, involvement, lust for learning, open-minded, overcurious, pandora's box, portentous, questioning, sensational, slum, speculative, stifle, tease, teaser, thirst for knowledge, top onion, tree onion, undisguised, uninquiring, uninquisitive, uninteresting, unsensational, untrammeled, vexer, wonderinga

cognitive state, state of mind, stuff, sundries, sundry, whatchamacallit, whatsis

curio, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity, wonder