[ ad-ven-cher-er ] show ipa. See synonyms for adventurer on Thesaurus.com. noun. a person who has, enjoys, or seeks adventures.
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The Germans call the strong urge for travel wanderlust, literally a desire for wandering. We loved the German efficiency of the word so much we annexed it for our own language. With a word like lust inside it, wanderlust really captures the dreamy passion travelers all share.
Dromomania was a historical psychiatric diagnosis whose primary symptom was uncontrollable urge to walk or wander. Dromomania has also been referred to as traveling fugue. Non-clinically, the term has come to be used to describe a desire for frequent traveling or wanderlust.
A vagabond is someone who travels from place to place, but with the implication that they do not have a permanent home to go back to. A rover is one who roves from place to place, synonymous with wanderer, but this may be easily confused with the more modern definition of rover, as in the mars or lunar rovers.
Hodophobia is the medical term for an extreme fear of traveling. Some people call it “trip-a-phobia.” It's often a heightened fear of a particular mode of transportation, such as airplanes.