Few people know the meaning of the term "curiosity". This word can often be heard on television programs. In life, ridiculous situations also happen to us, from which no one is immune. Let's try to understand the meaning of the term in more detail using examples and using a dictionary.
Meaning of the word
If you look into Ozhegov's explanatory dictionary, then a curiosity is what becomes clear right away. Outlandish, bizarre, funny or amusing life event.
The Encyclopedic Dictionary gives the following explanation of curiosity: funny, curious, funny incident or circumstance, curious thing, curiosity.
A curiosity is a funny situation that could happen unexpectedly or suddenly.
Book examples
Have you ever seen a curiosity in a bookstore? Sometimes it becomes very fun from possible situations. For example, once a glossy magazine with a photo of Ksenia Sobchak on the background cover was exhibited at the "Pets" stand.
A curiosity is when on the shelf "Forensics" you see a garden manual "How to plantbeautiful" with a picture of lush vegetation. It's funny when a book with an extraordinary title "I want to kill" is on the Poetry for Inspiration stand. Also, a bookstore salesman with a sense of humor can often put books with similar titles on the same shelf. For example:
- "Fault in love";
- "The Fault in the Stars";
- "The lie is to blame";
- "The sea is to blame".
Curious things from life
In life, funny situations happen very often. For example, a person made purchases in a grocery supermarket and barely brought more than three packages to his entrance. Somehow, he opened the door to the entrance with a magnetic key, but he did not manage to enter it either the first or the second time.
A curiosity is when you ride in a crowded trolleybus during rush hour and involuntarily put your hand instead of your bag into the bag "next door". It may seem funny to you, but to the lady who owns the reticule - no.
We send funny SMS messages hastily, without checking that T9 mode wrote instead of us.
