THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thirst for knowledge mean? 

• THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE (noun)
  The noun THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE has 1 sense:

1. curiosity that motivates investigation and study

  Familiarity information: THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Curiosity that motivates investigation and study

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

desire to know; lust for learning; thirst for knowledge

Hypernyms ("thirst for knowledge" is a kind of...):

curiosity; wonder (a state in which you want to learn more about something)

 Context examples 

So the student sat himself down and waited a while; but the time hung heavy upon him, and he begged earnestly that he might ascend forthwith, for his thirst for knowledge was great.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child’s blindness, added to a student’s thirst for knowledge.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Elizabeth was of a calmer and more concentrated disposition; but, with all my ardour, I was capable of a more intense application and was more deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)