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Suchintya Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

One word for "unquenchable thirst for knowledge"

Hi !!! could somebody please help me out with the above dilema of mine... I can't seem to find one word for an "unquenchable thirst for knowledge"... the nearest I got to was philosophy ( philos=love + sophy=know)... but that is not what I am looking for... the word need not necessarily be in english...
Thanks in advance!!!
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0 It seems to me, I don't know why, that the Germans ought to have a word for this, like "Wissenlust", perhaps. ) 02br 02br 00CJ 0-

— CalifJim

  • 0 It seems to me, I don't know why, that the Germans ought to have a word for this, like "Wissenlust", perhaps.
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0 It seems to me, I don't know why, that the Germans ought to have a word for this, like "Wissenlust", perhaps. (Caution: that was a made-up word!) 02br
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0 WissenSlust, maybe? Wissensdurst? 0-
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0 wissensdurst, wissbegierde - I think it means "inquisitiveness" 0-
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0 Wissensdurst means thurst for knowledge 0-
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0 Thank you Pieanne. Multi-lingual! It was "wissbegierde" that i found tranlasted as Inquisitive. 02br
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00I must remember Wissensdurst - great word! 050010id1
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0I once taught German too...050010id10
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0 I prostrate myself at your feet! 0-
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0 Please don't... it's too dusty! 0-
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Wissenlust is not in my dictionary, but it has been used more than once - actually google gives 4.000.000 results approx! I can give you the italian "sete di sapere" but unfortunately latin languages cannot just stick words together.
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