inquisitiveness

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Inquisitiveness is necessary as public health is the direct application of science in the field.

From US News • Sep. 30, 2014

Inquisitiveness would have seemed needless impertinence—just as much so as yours would have been in the case of the hypothetical So-and-sos at the beginning of our last chapter.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

Inquisitiveness was regarded as a gross rudeness by them, and I could frame no question that I did not fear would sound impertinent.

From Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch by Lane, Mary E. Bradley

Inquisitiveness is but another name for the Auditor General.

From Wise or Otherwise by Leavitt, Lydia

Inquisitiveness is never so forward, enterprising, and irrepressible as in a popular assembly which is given leave to ask questions and is afforded ready and abundant means of getting its questions answered.

From Congressional Government A Study in American Politics by Wilson, Woodrow