wanderlust
Longing for elsewhere
Wanderlust is a strong desire to travel and explore the world.
The word comes from German and suggests an almost restless urge to wander, stronger than ordinary interest in travel: After college, wanderlust took her backpacking through Southeast Asia.
Someone with wanderlust feels confined by staying in one place too long.
Self-supported wilderness travel
- globetrottingTraveling widely worldwide
- sightseeingVisiting places of interest
- tourismLeisure travel sector
- destinationIntended arrival point
passport · itinerary · journey · voyage · excursion · guidebook · hostel · roadtrip
Intense prolonged craving
- cravingPowerful urge to have
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- restlessnessState of unease
- piningAching with prolonged desire
ache · hunger · urge · dreaming · aspiration · itchy feet · desire · passion
Homeless, aimless wanderer
- drifterAimless, rootless traveler
- wayfarerTraveler, especially walking
- roamerOne who wanders
- ramblerLeisurely rural hiker
itinerant · peripatetic · footloose · nomad · globetrotter · bohemian · free spirit · rolling stone
Act of finding something
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
- explorerOne who investigates unfamiliar regions
- unchartedNot yet documented
- unknownNot yet discovered
curiosity · adventure · terra incognita · horizon · frontier · pioneer · trailblazer · mapping
Swift departure or retreat
- retreatSanctuary or withdrawal
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- respiteShort pause from hardship
- sanctuaryProtected sacred space
liberation · break · sabbatical · hideaway · haven · detox · unwind · starting fresh
backpacking
Self-supported wilderness travel
- globetrottingTraveling widely worldwide
- sightseeingVisiting places of interest
- tourismLeisure travel sector
destination · passport · itinerary · journey · voyage · excursion · guidebook · hostel · roadtrip · airfare
yearning
Intense prolonged craving
- cravingPowerful urge to have
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- restlessnessState of unease
pining · ache · hunger · urge · dreaming · aspiration · itchy feet · desire · passion · eagerness
vagabond
Homeless, aimless wanderer
rambler · itinerant · peripatetic · footloose · nomad · globetrotter · bohemian · free spirit · rolling stone · transient
discovery
Act of finding something
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
- explorerOne who investigates unfamiliar regions
- unchartedNot yet documented
unknown · curiosity · adventure · terra incognita · horizon · frontier · pioneer · trailblazer · mapping · off the beaten path
getaway
Swift departure or retreat
sanctuary · liberation · break · sabbatical · hideaway · haven · detox · unwind · starting fresh · running away
- travel writingtravelogue, travelogues, travel memoir, travel memoirs, travel diaries
- Untranslatableshygge, schadenfreude, hiraeth, wabi-sabi, gezelligheid
- adventureadventure, quest, quests, exploration, explorers
- traveltrip, trips, journey, journeys, travel
- German cultureOktoberfest, Bavaria, Bavarian, Berlin, Munich
- borrowed wordschic, naive, passe, avant-garde, faux
wanderlustsettledness
State of being established
domesticity · sedentariness · insularity · parochialism · rootedness
wanderlustagoraphobia
Fear of public spaces
xenophobia · fear of the unknown · neophobia · timidity · unadventurousness
wander, lust, wandering, wanderer, wandered, wanders, wanderers, wanderingly