Wanderlust is the restless hunger to travel and see the world. A bad case of wanderlust, seized by wanderlust, cure the wanderlust.
It is German and arrived whole in the early twentieth century, since English had no single word for the feeling. The lust in it is the German sense of desire rather than the narrower English one.
1nounwanderlustThe restless hunger to travel and see the world.
“After a year in the same office, her wanderlust returned and she booked a flight to Peru.”
wanderlust is a longing.
German Wanderlust joins wandern, to hike, and Lust, desire, and entered English around 1900.
Proto-Indo-European
*wendʰ-
German
Wanderlust
English, today
wanderlust
Built from
Borrowed from German Wanderlust. German Wanderlust (“an urge to travel; a love of the ‘great outdoors’”), from wandern (“to wander; to hike”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European wendʰ- (“to turn; to wind”)) + Lust (“a desire, a wish to do or have something; fun, pleasure”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European lewH- (“to separate; to set free; to untie”)); analysable as wander + lust.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA