wanderlust
Speech parts
1. wanderlust - Noun
2. wanderlust - Verb
Meaning
A strong impulse or longing to travel.
Synonyms: (rare) farsickness, itchy feet, travel bug
Antonyms: (rare) Heimweh, homesickness
An impulse to cheat or seek out other romantic or sexual partners; a straying heart.
(intransitive) To feel a strong impulse or longing to travel.
(intransitive) To roam or travel widely.
Wanderlust (countable and uncountable, plural Wanderlusts)
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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.
Searching through the fragments of my dream shattered sleep I wonder if the years have closed her mind I guess it must be wanderlust or trying to get free From the good old faithful feeling we once knew Carefree highway, let me slip away on you Carefree highway you seen better days..
My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along for company.
The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.
Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of him sitting in his armchair in the evenings, poring over atlases the way other fathers read newspapers or books.
The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire.