Wanderlust

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The painting Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, by Caspar David Friedrich, seems to exemplify many of the traits associated with Wanderlust
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The painting Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, by Caspar David Friedrich, seems to exemplify many of the traits associated with Wanderlust

Wanderlust (Middle High German: wandern, to wander, and Lust, desire) is a German loanword. It is commonly defined as a strong desire to travel, or by having an itch to get out and see the world [1]. Some consider it to be a simple linguistic compound of wander and lust.

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The word was first recorded into English dictionaries by 1902 [2]. In German, the term Wanderlust sounds old-fashioned today. To retranslate the English Wanderlust in the sense of "love of travel", the expression Fernweh is more appropriate.

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