novelty-seeking
Chasing fresh experiences
Novelty-seeking describes a personality trait or behavior pattern characterized by the pursuit of new, unfamiliar, or stimulating experiences.
Someone who is novelty-seeking tends to get bored easily with routine and actively looks for variety, whether in travel, relationships, hobbies, or ideas.
Psychologists consider it one dimension of temperament, sometimes associated with impulsivity or risk-taking.
Her novelty-seeking nature meant she rarely stayed in one job for long.
Desire to learn
- opennessQuality of being accessible
- neophiliaLove of the new
- explorationTraveling through unknown regions
- adventurousnessEagerness for risky pursuits
impulsivity · dopamine · stimulation · risk-taking · extraversion · arousal · temperament · Zuckerman
Systematic testing of ideas
- tryingCausing strain or frustration
- samplingExtracting subset for study
- exploringTraveling to learn firsthand
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
dabbling · variety · change · switching · spontaneity · job-hopping · travel · tasting
curiosity
Desire to learn
- opennessQuality of being accessible
- neophiliaLove of the new
- explorationTraveling through unknown regions
adventurousness · impulsivity · dopamine · stimulation · risk-taking · extraversion · arousal · temperament · Zuckerman · disinhibition
experimentation
Systematic testing of ideas
- tryingCausing strain or frustration
- samplingExtracting subset for study
- exploringTraveling to learn firsthand
wandering · dabbling · variety · change · switching · spontaneity · job-hopping · travel · tasting · browsing
adaptation
Fitting to new conditions
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
- foragingSeeking wild food sources
- migrationMovement to new territory
genetic · instinct · fitness · dispersal · neophilia · hunter-gatherer · risk-reward · advantage · trait · inheritance
trends
Prevailing directions of change
- marketingPromoting goods to consumers
- gadgetsSmall mechanical contrivances
- fadsShort-lived popular phenomena
fashion · newness · launches · upgrades · exclusivity · hype · unboxing · influencer · viral · disruption
- open-mindednessopen-mindedness, openness, open mind, broad-mindedness, broadminded
novelty-seekingneophobia
Aversion to new things
creature of habit · set in one's ways · conservatism · conventionality · stick-in-the-mud
novelty-seekingrisk-averse
Preferring safety over uncertainty
cautiousness · prudence · wariness · timidity · inhibition
novelty-seekingclosed-mindedness
Refusal to consider other views
incuriosity · narrow-mindedness · dogmatism · rigidity · inflexibility
novelty, novel, novels, novelist, novelists, novella, novellas, novelette, novelize