wanderlustn.

1902 Athenæum 4 Jan. 15 If the present reviewer knows anything of the wanderlust and the wallaby [etc.].

1902 D. G. Brinton Basis Social Relations iv. 113 The goading restlessness which has driven single tribes or groups of tribes into aimless roving. This Wanderlust arises as an emotional epidemic.

1928 Daily Mail 7 Aug. 12/5 For people who have the wanderlust there are some nice tours around these parts.

1948 Rep. Native Laws Comm. 1946–8 (Dept. Native Affairs, S. Afr.) 43/1 If..conditions are such that, when their little interval of wanderlust is over, they can pass into settled family life, [etc.].

1969 G. Greene Trav. with my Aunt i. vii. 71 He would get a little restless with the wanderlust.

1981 J. B. Hilton Surrender Value xv. 113 The literally thousands of children to whom he had offered their first experience of wanderlust.

1927 Sunday Express 24 Apr. 3/4 The young wander~luster next turned up in Samoa, and went to Bombay to live in a harem.

1936 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. (ed. 4) 219 Wanderlust..is used much more frequently in the United States along with its derivatives, wanderluster (Eng. rambler), wanderlusting and wanderlust-club.

1952 S. Spender Learning Laughter 31 The wander-lusting young Israelis.

1985 A. McCandless Burke Found. ix. 66 Senior NCOs felt a compulsive urge to track down wanderlusting junior officers.