“Not all who wander are lost” J.R.R. Tolkien – but perhaps they’re suffering from fernweh? Or have a bout of wanderlust? Or they were born a nemophilist?
Have you ever traveled to a new destination and not known how to describe what you’re feeling? Well, there are loads of different travel synonyms in different languages that’ll help you describe what you’re feeling perfectly.
Take a look at this list filled with creative travel words, wanderlust synonyms, and travel lover synonyms. Expand your travel vocabulary!
#1 Fernweh
Meaning: An urge to travel is even stronger than wanderlust.
Origin: German
#2 Numinous
Meaning: Feeling both fearful and awed by what is before you.
Origin: Latin
#3 Strikhedonia
Meaning: The joy of being able to say “to hell with it”.
Origin: Greek
#4 Peregrinate
Meaning: To travel or wander around from place to place.
Origin: Latin
#5 Eudaimonia
Meaning: The contented happiness you feel when you travel.
Origin: Greek
#6 Sonder
Meaning: The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.
Origin: Unknown
#7 Trouvaille
Meaning: Something lovely discovered by chance.
Origin: French
#8 Onism
Meaning: The awareness of how little of the world you’ll experience.
Origin: Danish
#9 Dérive
Meaning: A spontaneous journey where the traveler lets the spirit of the landscape and architecture move them.
Origin: French
#10 Serendipity
Meaning: Finding something interesting or valuable by chance.
Origin: English
#11 Livsnjutare
Meaning: One who loves life deeply and lives it to the extreme.
Origin: Swedish
#12 Solivagant
Meaning: Wandering alone. A solitary adventurer who travels or wanders the globe.
Origin: Latin
#13 Ecophobia
Meaning: A fear or dislike of one’s home.
Origin: English
#14 Schwellenangst
Meaning: Fear of crossing a threshold to begin a new chapter.
Origin: German
#15 Eleutheromania
Meaning: The intense desire for freedom.
Origin: Greek
#16 Vagary
Meaning: A whimsical or roaming journey.
Origin: Latin
#17 Saudade
Meaning: The emotional state of nostalgia and longing for someone or something distant. Saudade was once described as “the love that remains” after someone is gone.
Origin: Portuguese
#18 Hygge
Meaning: The warm feeling you get while enjoying the company of great friends and all life has to offer.
Origin: Danish
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#19Nemophilist
Meaning: Someone who is fond of the forest.
Origin: English
#20 Yoko meshi
Meaning: The word is not an easy translation but it describes the stress of speaking a foreign language.
Origin: Japanese
#21 Coddiwomple
Meaning: To travel purposefully towards an unknown destination
Origin: English
#22 Sehnsucht
Meaning: A wistful longing and yearning in the heart for travels that have been and travels to come.
Origin: German
#23 Yūgen
Meaning: A profound and mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe.
Origin: Japanese
#24 Sturmfrei
Meaning: The freedom of being alone and having the ability to do whatever you want.
Origin: German
#25 Nefelibata
Meaning: One who lives in the cloud of their own imagination. Someone who is generally unconventional.
Origin: Portuguese
#26 Commuovere
Meaning: To move to tears.
Origin: Italian
Check out these best views in the world that’ll move you to tears!
#27 Flâuner
Meaning: A person of leisure, deliberately aimless, simply wandering the streets.
Origin: French
#28 Musafir
Meaning: Traveler
Origin: Urdu
#29 Querencia
Meaning: The place where you are your most authentic self, from where strength is drawn, where you feel at home.
Origin: Spanish
#30 Thalassophile
Meaning: A lover of the ocean.
Origin: Greek
As a thalassophile myself, I’d recommend traveling along the sea on Greece’s Rhodes Island.
#31 Komorebi
Meaning: The sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees.
Origin: Japanese
#32 Acatalepsy
Meaning: The idea that it is impossible to truly comprehend everything.
Origin: Greek
#33 Wayfarer
Meaning: Someone who loves to travel, especially on foot.
Origin: English
#34 Selcouth
Meaning: Something that’s odd and unusual to a person.
Origin: Old English
#35 Novaturient
Meaning: A desire to seek powerful change in one’s life; the feeling that pushes you to travel.
Origin: Latin
#36 Rückkehrunruhe
Meaning: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness—to the extent you have to keep reminding yourself that it happened at all.
Origin: German
#37 Exulansis
Meaning: is what you feel when you stop trying to explain or talk about an experience because the surrounding people cannot relate to it.
Origin: English
#38 Ukiyo
Meaning: Living in the moment, detached from the bothers of life.
Origin: Japanese
#39 Wanderlust
Meaning: A strong desire to travel.
Origin: German
#40 Vúlat
Meaning: A union or reunion after being apart for a long time with one’s beloved.
Origin: Turkish
We hope you’ve found some new beautiful and inspiring words about travel! If you’d like to learn more, check out these inspirational words in other languages!
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