“curiosity” in Latin

The desire of seeing something novel, etc., curiositas (very rare: Cic., Att., 2, 12): nova noscendi studium: nova videndi studium: ignara visundi cupido (desire to see something novel; Vid: Liv., 1, 9: Sen., Gell., 9, 12, extr.): spectandi studium (desire of viewing or beholding objects in general, Hirt., B., Alex., 20): audiendi et cognoscendi studium (Caes.): audiendi cupiditas (curiosity to hear, etc.): exspectatio (the longing anxiety about things to come). From curiosity, spectandi studio; from curiosity to see the new town, studio videndae novae urbis (Liv., 1, 9). Anybody is possessed by an insatiable curiosity, est aliquis in curiositate ὀξύπεινος (Cic., Att., 2, 12, 2): to gratify or satisfy one’s curiosity, studio spectandi indulgere: after having satisfied his curiosity, omnibus perspectis: some of them were induced or led by curiositu to go there; or, went there from curiosity, pars eorum spectandi studio ferebatur.

A thing not seen or met with every day, raritas: res rara: res rara visu or inventu: res raritate notabilis: res visenda (a thing worth seeing). Her ears were really a curiosity, gerebat auribus quam maxime singulare et vere unicum opus naturae (Plin., 9, 35, 58): to be no longer a curiosity, novitatis gratiam exuere: anything that is quite a curiosity, monstrum.