Timeline for a word for wanting to be somewhere else
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| Dec 31, 2014 at 16:56 | comment | added | Ulrich Schwarz | @ermanen: FWIW, as a German phrase I'd put "Wanderlust" with "Weltschmerz" in that it's a semantically valid word, but I've never heard it actually used by native speakers. (I'm not a philosopher, though, so my sample might be skewed.) | |
| Dec 31, 2014 at 16:33 | comment | added | ermanen | Funny that wanderlust is a German word also and loaned by English. We might loan "fernweh" also, who knows. Wikipedia says: "In modern German, the use of the word Wanderlust to mean "desire to travel" is less common, having been replaced by Fernweh (lit. "farsickness"), coined as an antonym to Heimweh ("homesickness")." | |
| Dec 31, 2014 at 15:35 | history | answered | Ulrich Schwarz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |