Synonyms of nosiness

nosiness

noun

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• curiosity
• concern
• inquisitiveness
• questioning
• curiousness
• interest
• attentiveness
• wonderment
• intrusiveness
• inquiry
• prying
• interference
• officiousness
• interrogation
• eavesdropping
• regard
• obtrusiveness
• rubbernecking
• meddlesomeness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• indifference
• disregard
• incuriosity
• apathy
• unconcern
• disinterestedness
• incuriousness

Example Sentences

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. — 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