Traveling is one of the greatest joys life has to offer. It’s a chance to escape the ordinary, let go of all your worries, and enjoy being alive. So many pleasures arise from traveling: anticipation, moving around, novelty, discovery, break from routine, a heightened appreciation of home.
The joy of travel brings you indescribable feeling you get when you make the first step on a new journey to discover yet another portion of the world. It doesn’t matter if the journey is of a thousand miles or much, much less. What matters is that it makes you feel alive.
Is there a word for the feeling of heightened awareness when traveling?
Yes, there are several travel words that describe the feeling of heightened awareness when travelling. Here are some examples from the search results:
- Resfeber: A Swedish word that refers to the restless race of the traveller’s heart before the journey begins when anxiety and anticipation are tangled together1
. - Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as complex as one's own2
. - Fernweh: A German word that describes a longing for far-off places2
. - Wanderlust: A strong desire to travel and explore the world1
. - Eudaimonia: A Greek word that describes a state of being happy while travelling and feeling great1
. - Selcouth: An Old English word that describes the feeling of finding everything unfamiliar and strange, yet marvelous anyway.
Love it, great list.
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