Wanderlust
\ WON-der-luhst \
, noun;
A
strong, innate desire to rove or travel about.
Quotes: In the first few seconds an aching sadness
wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the
excitement of gypsy wanderlust .
-- Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Diana Burgin and
Katherine Tiernan O'Connor, The Master and Margarita , 1967
A person susceptible to " wanderlust " is not
so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.
-- Forward by Pico Iyer, "Why We Travel,"
Wanderlust , 2000
Origin: Wanderlust
is a German loanword that translates literally to "wander desire."
It entered English in the early 1900s.
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