as in curiosity
an eager desire to find out about things that are often none of one's business
your annoying nosiness isn't going to win you any friends
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Recent Examples of nosiness
Cohen knows today’s podcasting cabal owes him a debt for pioneering its booking practices; Call Her Daddy and Las Culturistas don’t get to bounce between Michelle Obama and Huda Mustafa from Love Island USA without Cohen’s tradition of loving nosiness.
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 4 May 2026
Or plain nosiness, which is also rampant.
—Judith Martin, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
One curious dog has left people in stitches after he was caught on camera letting his nosiness get the better of him, with the ensuing video going viral.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Our social voyeurism may have deep evolutionary roots The human fascination with watching others—whether through reality TV, Instagram stories or overheard drama—is often dismissed as nosiness.
—Clarissa Brincat, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2025
The desire to know the answer to those questions is not a matter of prurient nosiness.
—Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2024
Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 4 May 2026
Or plain nosiness, which is also rampant.
—Judith Martin, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
One curious dog has left people in stitches after he was caught on camera letting his nosiness get the better of him, with the ensuing video going viral.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Our social voyeurism may have deep evolutionary roots The human fascination with watching others—whether through reality TV, Instagram stories or overheard drama—is often dismissed as nosiness.
—Clarissa Brincat, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2025
The desire to know the answer to those questions is not a matter of prurient nosiness.
—Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nosiness
Noun
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That curiosity is what led us to Soweto Township in South Africa to sit down with Mazibuko.—
Juana Summers,
NPR,
7 June 2026
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Neuman advised that an adult approach reading the same way children do — by letting curiosity lead the way.—
Sneha Dhandapani,
CNN Money,
6 June 2026
Noun
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Analysts have previously expressed concern that US stocks of the interceptors have been depleted by the Iran conflict as well as by last year’s 12-day war between Israel and Iran, and noted that manufacturing more takes time.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
4 June 2026
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Those concerns that chopped 30% off cyber stocks earlier this year could not have been more wrong, as Jim Cramer had said all along.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
4 June 2026
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Allen attended Pacific Lutheran High School in Gardena, California, where he was known for his inquisitiveness and intellect, a former volleyball teammate told NBC News.—
Garrett Haake,
NBC news,
26 Apr. 2026
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Yet by cooling down people and promising to satiate the inquisitiveness of curious scientists, the cucumber managed to spread to all continents.—
Andrés Muedano,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Nosiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nosiness. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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