What is the difference between Wanderlust and Fernweh?

Both German words (though wanderlust is used in English as well)

matt2013-03-11T20:18:27Z

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Wanderlust is the desire to go out and travel and experience the world, you are literally lusting to travel.

Frenweh literally means distance-sickness (like in homesickness). You feel sad when not traveling, often depressed and lost. You desire to go out into the world, often alone but sometimes with a companion and generally you do not settle up a home, the entire world seems like your home. You drift from country to country or place to place and meet new people, learn new languages, and live a life free but never with one particular home.

It is a concept hard to explain in English, but I hope it was somewhat clear!

murtha2016-12-08T18:02:15Z

Define Wanderlust

mccafferty2016-11-02T14:37:47Z

Wanderlust Define

Rain2013-03-12T01:49:50Z

Wanderlust : desire to wander, a very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
Fernweh: have itchy feet to foreign countries: the longing, the desire to travel to a distant country

Magdalena2016-12-03T14:26:29Z

I have both of them and low income. Lucky me.