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Russian
Pronunciation
Noun
любопы́тство • (ljubopýtstvo) n inan (genitive любопы́тства, nominative plural любопы́тства, genitive plural любопы́тств)
- curiosity, interest
- Antonym: безразли́чие (bezrazlíčije)
1906, Александр Куприн [Aleksandr I. Kuprin], “1”, in Штабс-капитан Рыбников; English translation from John Middleton Murry, transl., Captain Ribnikov, 1916:Его́ суетли́вая и не́рвная развя́зность, его́ запу́ганность, стра́нно грани́чившая с на́глостью, его́ глу́пость и привя́зчивое, пра́здное любопы́тство выводи́ли из себя́ люде́й, за́нятых ва́жной и стра́шно отве́тственной бума́жной рабо́той.- Jevó sujetlívaja i nérvnaja razvjáznostʹ, jevó zapúgannostʹ, stránno graníčivšaja s náglostʹju, jevó glúpostʹ i privjázčivoje, prázdnoje ljubopýtstvo vyvodíli iz sebjá ljudéj, zánjatyx vážnoj i strášno otvétstvennoj bumážnoj rabótoj.
- His bustling and nervous familiarity, his startled, frightened look, which bordered strangely on impertinence, his stupidity, his persistent and frivolous curiosity taxed to the utmost the patience of men occupied in important and terribly responsible scribbling.
Declension