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What is the difference between Wanderlust and Fernweh?
Both German words (though wanderlust is used in English as well)
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
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!
Source(s): German speaker and I myself have Fernweh. - RainLv 78 years ago
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
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