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100 Unique and Creative Travel Words


with Beautiful Meanings
October 3, 2022

By Anjali Chawla

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Everyone (who knows me) knows how I love words. I hoard


words. Everyone also knows how I love to travel. I eat, drink,
and sleep travel Here, in this post, I’ve blended two of
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creative travel words that describe wanderlust perfectly. Stay

You’d never be at a loss for words while narrating your travel


experiences once you equip yourself with these unique
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words about travel.

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Unusual Travel Words with Beautiful


Meanings
Wanderlust (n.)
Origin: German

Pronunciation: vawn-duh-luhst

Meaning: a strong desire to travel

Resfeber (n.)
Origin: Swedish

Pronunciation: race-fay-ber
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Meaning: the restless race of traveler’s heart before the Stay

journey begins, when anxiety and anticipation are tangled


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Strikhedonia (n.)
Origin: Greek

Pronunciation: strik-he-don-e-a

Meaning: the joy of being able to say “to hell with it”

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Eleutheromania (n.)
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Origin: Greek
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Pronunciation: eleuthero-ma-nia

Meaning: an intense and irresistible desire for freedom

Akihi (n.)
Origin: Hawaiian

Pronunciation: ak-i-hi

Meaning: listening to directions and then walking off and


promptly forgetting them

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Exulansis (n.)
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Origin: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows


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Pronunciation: exu-lan-sis

Meaning: the tendency to give up trying to talk about an


experience because people are unable to relate to it —
whether through envy or pity or simple foreignness—which
allows it to drift away from the rest of your life story, until
the memory itself feels out of place, almost mythical,
wandering restlessly in the fog, no longer even looking for a
place to land.

Hodophile (n.)
Origin: Greek
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Meaning: a lover of roads; one who loves to travel ×

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Saudade (n.)
Origin: Portuguese

Pronunciation: sau-da-de

Meaning: a nostalgic longing for something or someone that


was loved and then lost, with the knowledge that it or they
might never return; “the love that remains”

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Fernweh (n.)
Origin: German ×

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Pronunciation: feirn-veyh
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Meaning: an ache for distant places; a longing for far-off


places; an urge to travel even stronger than wanderlust;
being homesick for a place you’ve never been

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Selcouth (adj.)
Origin: Old English

Pronunciation: sel-kooth

Meaning: unfamiliar, rare, strange, and yet marvelous

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Serendipity (n.)
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Origin: English
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Pronunciation: seh-ruhn-di-puh-tee

Meaning: finding something good without looking for it

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Pilgrimage (n.)
Origin: Latin

Pronunciation: pil-gruh-mij

Meaning: a journey, especially a long one, made to some


sacred place as an act of religious devotion

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Gökotta (n.)
Origin: Swedish

Pronunciation: yo-kot-ah

Meaning: literally translates to the early cuckoo morning or


dawn picnic to hear the first birdsong; the act of rising early
in the morning to hear the birds sing at sunrise and
appreciate nature

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Origin: German
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Pronunciation: shwel-en-ahngst

Meaning: fear of embarking on something new; fear of


crossing a threshold

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Voyage (n.)
Origin: Latin

Pronunciation: voy-ij

Meaning: a long journey involving travel by sea or in space

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Yūgen (n.)
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Origin: Japanese
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Pronunciation: yoo-gehn

Meaning: a profound awareness of the universe that triggers


emotional responses too deep, powerful, and mysterious for
words

Hygge (n.)
Origin: Danish

Pronunciation: hue-gah

Meaning: the danish practice of creating warmth,


connection, and well being; a complete absence of anything
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annoying or emotionally overwhelming; taking pleasure from


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the presence of gentle, soothing things; celebrating the


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Vagary (n.)
Origin: Latin

Pronunciation: va-ga-re

Meaning: an unpredictable instance, a wandering journey; a


whimsical, wild, and unusual idea, desire, or action

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Morii (n.)
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Origin: Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Pronunciation: mo-rii

Meaning: the desire to capture a fleeting experience

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“with every click of the shutter, you’re trying to press pause


on your life. If only so you can feel a little more comfortable
moving on living in a world stuck on the play.”

Musafir (n.)
Origin: Arabic
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Musafir remains one of my most favorite words associated


with travel.

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Odyssey (n.)
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Origin: Greek
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Pronunciation: aw-duh-see

Meaning: a long and eventful or adventurous journey or


experience

Sonder (n.)
Origin: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Pronunciation: sohn-dehrr

Meaning: the realization that each random passerby is living


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craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you
like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate
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know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an


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extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic
passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

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Gadabout (n.)
Origin: Middle English

Pronunciation: gad-uh-bout

Meaning: a habitual pleasure-seeker; a person who moves


about restlessly and aimlessly, especially from one social
activity to another; a person who travels often or to many
different places, especially for pleasure

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Acatalepsy (n.)
Origin: Greek

Pronunciation: ey-kat-l-ep-see

Meaning: incomprehensibleness; the impossibility of


comprehending the universe; the belief that human
knowledge can never have true certainty

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Nomad (n.)
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Origin: Greek
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Pronunciation: noh-mad

Meaning: a person who does not stay long in the same


place; a wanderer

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Cockaigne (n.)
Origin: Middle English

Pronunciation: ko-keyn

Meaning: an imaginary or fabled land of luxury and idleness

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Onism (n.)
Origin: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Pronunciation: o-ni-sm

Meaning: the awareness of how little of the world you’ll


experience

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“the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits
only one place at a time, which is like standing in front of
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representing one more thing you’ll never get to see before


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you die—and all because, as the arrow on the map helpfully
points out, you are here.”

Nemophilist (n.)
Origin: Greek

Pronunciation: ni-mo-fi-list

Meaning: a haunter of the woods; one who loves the forest


for its beauty and solitude

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Trouvaille (n.)
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Origin: French

Pronunciation: troo-vee

Meaning: a lucky find; a chance encounter with something


wonderful and valuable

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Safarnama (n.)
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Origin: Persian
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Pronunciation: su-fur-nama

Meaning: travelogue; an account of the travels

Smultronställe (n.)
Origin: Swedish

Pronunciation: smool-tron-stall-uh

Meaning: literally translates to place of wild strawberries; a


special place discovered, treasured, returned to for solace
and relaxation; a personal idyll free from stress or sadness
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Livsnjutare (n.)
Origin: Swedish

Pronunciation: livs-noo-tuhreh

Meaning: literally translates to enjoyer of life; someone who


loves life deeply and lives it to the extreme

Wayfarer (n.)
Origin: Old English

Pronunciation: wey-fair-er
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Kopfkino (n.)
Origin: German

Pronunciation: kof-kino

Meaning: literally translates to head cinema; the act of


playing out an entire scenario in your mind

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Hireath (n.)
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Origin: Welsh
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Pronunciation: her-rith

Meaning: a homesickness for a home to which you cannot


return, a home which maybe never was; the nostalgia, the
yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past

Peripatetic (n.)
Origin: Greek

Pronunciation: per-uh-puh-tet-ik

Meaning: a person who travels from place to place


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Luftmensch (n.)
Origin: Yiddish

Pronunciation: looft-mensh

Meaning: literally translates to an air person; an impractical


dreamer with improbable plans and no business sense; one
with their head in the clouds

Solivagant (adj.)
Origin: Latin

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Meaning: wandering alone


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Waldeinsamkeit (n.)
Origin: German

Pronunciation: vahyd-ahyn-zahm-kahyt

Meaning: literally translates to woodland solitude; the


feeling of being alone in the woods

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Ecophobia (n.)
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Origin: English
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Pronunciation: eco-phobia

Meaning: a fear or dislike of one’s home

Ukiyo (n.)
Origin: Japanese

Pronunciation: u-key-yo

Meaning: literally translates to the floating world; living in


the moment, detached from the bothers of life

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Meraki (n.)
Origin: Greek

Pronunciation: may-rah-kee

Meaning: to do something with soul, creativity, and love;


when you leave a piece of yourself in your work

Wabi-sabi (n.)
Origin: Japanese

Pronunciation: wabe-sabe

Meaning: finding beauty in imperfections; an acceptance of


things as they are

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Vorfreude (n.) ×

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Origin: German
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Pronunciation: vor-froy-dah

Meaning: the joyful, intense anticipation that comes from


imagining future pleasures

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Cosmopolitan (n.)
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Origin: English
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Pronunciation: koz-muh-pahl-i-ten

Meaning: belonging to all the world; not limited to just one


part of the world; someone who has traveled a lot and feels
at home in any part of the world

Peregrinate (v.)
Origin: Middle English

Pronunciation: per-i-gruh-neyt

Meaning: to travel or wander from place to place


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Origin: Latin
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Meaning: a temporary stay

Shinrin-yoku (n.)
Origin: Japanese

Pronunciation: shin-rin-yo-ku

Meaning: literally translates to forest bathing; a leisurely trip


to the forest for recreation, relaxation, meditation, and
therapy

Tîeow (v.)
Origin: Thai
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Merak (n.)
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Origin: Serbian
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Pronunciation: mir-ak

Meaning: enjoyment of the simple things in life; the feeling


of bliss and sense of oneness with the universe that comes
from the simplest of pleasures; the pursuit of small, daily
pleasures that all add up to a great sense of happiness and
fulfillment

Dépaysement (n.)
Origin: French

Pronunciation: de-pe-iz-ma
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Meaning: the feeling that comes from not being in one’s Stay

home country; disorientation due to experience of


unfamiliar surroundings; being out of your element like a ×
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Itinerant (n.)
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Origin: Latin

Pronunciation: ai-ti-nr-uhnt

Meaning: one who travels from place to place

Numinous (adj.)
Origin: Latin

Pronunciation: noo-muh-nuhs

Meaning: having a strong religious or spiritual or


supernatural quality; indicating or suggesting the presence
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yet fascinated, wed yet attracted – the powerful, personal
feeling of being overwhelmed and inspired
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Heimweh (n.)
Origin: German

Pronunciation: haim-ve

Meaning: homesickness; nostalgia; a longing for home

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Sprachgefühl (n.)
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Origin: German
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Pronunciation: shprahkh-guh-fyl

Meaning: the character and spirit of a language; an intuitive


sense of the rule and rhythm of language

Mångata (n.)
Origin: Swedish

Pronunciation: mo-an-gaa-tah

Meaning: the glimmering, roadlike reflection of the


moonlight on water
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Origin: Greek
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Meaning: an uncontrollable impulse or desire to wander or
travel

Sehnsucht (n.)
Origin: German

Pronunciation: zen-zukt

Meaning: the inconsolable longing in the human heart for


we know not what; a yearning for a far, familiar, non-earthly
land one can identify as one’s home

Dérive (v.)
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Meaning: literally translates to drift; a spontaneous and


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unplanned journey where the traveler leaves their life


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behind for a time to let the spirit of the landscape and
architecture attract and move them

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Absquatulate (v.)
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Origin: English
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Pronunciation: ab-skwoch-uh-leyt

Meaning: to leave abruptly without saying goodbye

Thalassophile (n.)
Origin: Greek

Pronunciation: thal-as-o-fahyl

Meaning: a lover of the sea; someone who loves the sea or


ocean

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Origin: Japanese

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Meaning: literally translates to a meal eaten sideways; refers


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to the peculiar stress of speaking a foreign language

Forelsket (v.)
Origin: Norwegian

Pronunciation: phor-rel-sket

Meaning: the euphoria you experience when you are first


falling in love

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Rückkehrunruhe (n.) Stay

Origin: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows


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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, even though it felt so vivid just days ago—
which makes you wish you could smoothly cross-dissolve
back into everyday life, or just hold the shutter open
indefinitely and let one scene become superimposed on the
next, so all your days would run together and you’d never
have to call cut.

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Eudaimonia (n.)
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Origin: Greek
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Pronunciation: u-de-mon-e-a

Meaning: literally translates to human flourishing; a


contented state of being happy, healthy, and prosperous

Sturmfrei (adj.)
Origin: German

Pronunciation: stirm-fra

Meaning: literally translates to storm-free; the freedom of


not being watched by a parent or superior; being alone at a
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Yu yi (n.)
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Pronunciation: yu-yi
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Meaning: the desire to see with fresh eyes, and feel things
just as powerfully as you did when you were younger-before
expectations, before memory, before words

Photophile (n.)
Origin: English

Pronunciation: pho-to-phile

Meaning: derived from the biological term “photophilic” for


an organism that thrives in full light, it means a person who
loves photography and light
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Traipse (v.) Stay

Origin: Unknown
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Meaning: to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or
reaching one’s goal

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 Neophile (n.)
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Origin: Greek
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Pronunciation: neo-phile

Meaning: one who loves or has a strong affinity for anything


new or novel

Ballagàrraidh (n.)
Origin: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Pronunciation: bal-la-ga-rye

Meaning: the awareness that you are not at home in the


wilderness
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Vacilando (v.) Stay

Origin: Spanish
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Pronunciation: vah-see-lan-doh
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Meaning: to wander or travel with the knowledge that the
journey is more important than the destination

Quaquaversal (adj.)
Origin: Latin

Pronunciation: kwey-kwuh-vur-sul

Meaning: moving or happening in every direction


instantaneously

Coddiwomple (v.)
Origin: English
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Pronunciation: kod-ee-wom-pul

Meaning: to travel in a purposeful manner towards a vague ×

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Vemödalen (n.)
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Origin: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows


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Pronunciation: ve-mo-da-len

Meaning: the fear that everything has already been done

“the frustration of photographing something amazing when


thousands of identical photos already exist—the same
sunset, the same waterfall, the same curve of a hip, the
same closeup of an eye—which can turn a unique subject
into something hollow and pulpy and cheap, like a mass-
produced piece of furniture you happen to have assembled
yourself.”

Commuovere (v.)
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Pronunciation: com-muo-ve-re
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Meaning: a story that touches or stirs you and moves you to


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tears

Natsukashii (adj.)
Origin: Japanese

Pronunciation: nat-soo-kash-ee

Meaning: of some small thing that brings you suddenly,


joyously back to fond memories, not with a wistful longing
for what’s past, but with an appreciation of the good times

Querencia (n.)
Origin: Spanish
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Pronunciation: keh-rehn-syah

Meaning: a place from which one’s strength is drawn, where ×

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one feels at home; the place where you are your most
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authentic self

Novaturient (adj.)
Origin: Latin

Pronunciation: no-vah-ter-y-ent

Meaning: desiring or seeking powerful change in one’s life,


behavior, or situation

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Komorebi (n.)
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Origin: Japanese
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Pronunciation: koh-moh-ray-bee

Meaning: sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees

Flâneur (n.)
Origin: French

Pronunciation: flah-nœr

Meaning: one who strolls around aimlessly but enjoyably,


observing life and his surroundings

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Origin: Kwangali

Pronunciation: ha-ahn-yoh-kuu ×

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Meaning: to walk on tiptoes across the warm sand

Dès Vu (n.)
Origin: Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Pronunciation: des-vu

Meaning: the awareness that this will become a memory

Gallivant (v.)
Origin: English

Pronunciation: gal-uh-vant
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Meaning: go around from one place to another in the
pursuit of pleasure or entertainment
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Nefelibata (n.)
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Origin: Portuguese
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Pronunciation: ne-fe-le-ba-ta

Meaning: literally translates to cloud-walker; one who lives


in the clouds of their own imagination or dreams, or one
who does not obey the conventions of society, literature, or
art; an unconventional or unorthodox person

Petrichor (n.)
Origin: English

Pronunciation: pet-ri-kawr

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the smell of earth after rain

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Circumnavigate (v.)
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Origin: Latin
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Pronunciation: suh-kuhm-na-vuh-gayt

Meaning: to sail or travel all the way around the world

Hitoritabi (n.)
Origin: Japanese

Pronunciation: hitori-tabi

Meaning: traveling alone; a solitary journey

Torschlusspanik (n.)
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Origin: German
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Pronunciation: tursh-luss-pan-ik
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Meaning: literally translates to gate-closing panic; a sense


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of anxiety or fear caused by the feeling that life’s


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opportunities are passing by and diminishing as one ages

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Globetrotter (n.)
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Origin: English
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Pronunciation: globe-trawt-uh

Meaning: a person who travels widely

Menggonceng (v.)
Origin: Indonesian

Pronunciation: menggon-ceng

Meaning: to travel by getting a free ride, usually on the back


of a friend’s bicycle

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Origin: Old French

Pronunciation: va-guh-baand ×

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Meaning: a person who wanders from place to place


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without a home or job

Gemütlichkeit (n.)
Origin: German

Pronunciation: guh-myt-likh-kahyt

Meaning: a feeling of cozy warmth, friendliness, and good


cheer with a sense of belonging

Erlebnisse (n.)
Origin: German

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Meaning: an experience that one feels most deeply, and, in


a sense, ‘lives through’ – not just mere life experience, but ×

something memorable which happens to someone


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Livslogga (v.)
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Origin: Swedish
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Pronunciation:

Meaning: literally translates to life log; continually capturing


and documenting one’s life through pictures

Poudrerie (n.)
Origin: French

Pronunciation: pu-dre-ri

Meaning: fallen snow blown by the wind from the ground,


appearing like fine powdery particles across the streets and
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Yeoubi (n.)
Origin: Korean ×

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Pronunciation: yu-bi
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Meaning: literally translates to fox rain; a sunshower – the


event of having a light rain while the sun is still shining

Morriña (n.)
Origin: Galician

Pronunciation: mo-rina

Meaning: a very deep, nostalgic and melancholic


homesickness experienced as one intensly longs to return
home; “a ‘saudade’ so strong it can even kill”

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Origin: Icelandic

Pronunciation: vith-see-nee ×

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Meaning: a panoramic view

Xenophilia (n.)
Origin: Greek

Pronunciation: zen-uh-fil-ee-uh

Meaning: love for, attraction to, or appreciation of foreign


people, manners, customs, or cultures

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Anjali Chawla

A story-weaver and a travel blogger based in Delhi, Anjali left her corporate

job to see what having life exactly feels like and never looked back. Her 14-

year-old daughter is her best travel buddy. She aspires to travel to all the

seven continents with her family. Antarctica remains her dream destination.

Books, mountains, colorful doors and windows, blue skies, sunsets, open

roads, cobbled streets, undiscovered places, and beautiful minds inspire her.
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