It's the word of the day for January 23rd.
Today's word is wanderlust spelled W-A-N-D-E-R-L-U-S-T.
Wanderlust is a noun.
It refers to a strong desire to travel.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Crossings,
How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, by Ben Goldfarb.
In a few weeks,
Ortega explained in a quiet moment the Red Desert heard would begin its annual pilgrimage towards summer range.
Some were homebodies, wandering only a few dozen miles.
Others, as Hall Sawyer had shown, would trek 150 miles, and one legendary doe, deer 255,
ditched her herdmates and pressed on up to the grovantre range along the shores of Jackson Lake and across the Snake River all the way to Idaho.
Was this mere wanderlust or part of a broader survival strategy?
For my part writes Robert Louis Stevenson in Travels with a Donkey in the Sevent.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.
I travel for travel's sake.
The great affair is to move.
Sounds like a case of wanderlust if we ever heard one.
Those with wanderlust don't necessarily need to go anywhere in particular.
They just don't care to stay in one spot.
The etymology of the word wanderlust is a very simple one that you can probably figure out yourself.