Meaning & use

Scripturient

adjective·Academic

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Possessing a strong urge or compulsion to write.

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Feeling scripturient after months of silence, she filled three notebooks in a week.

The scripturient novelist could not pass a day without putting pen to paper.

A note on using this word

A rare word derived from the Latin 'scripturire,' meaning to have a strong desire to write; it shares the same root as 'scripture' and 'script.'

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