Lost Word Of The Day (23)

Have you felt the need to make a powerful change to your life, behaviour, or situation? Me neither, but if you did, you could be described as novaturient. The 17th century adjective was used to describe the compelling need to make a change. Its root comes from the Latin verb “novare”, meaning to make new.

With the shelves of book shops groaning with self-help manuals, there is clearly a market to feed the desires of the novaturient.