Context

Traveling

Words for being on journeys and in foreign places.

20 words

Vacilando

vah-see-lan-doh

v. Traveling for the journey rather than the destination.

Resfeber

race-fay-ber

n. Anxious excitement before a journey.

Poronkusema

po-ron-ku-se-ma

n. Distance a reindeer can travel before needing rest.

adj. Inexplicably moved by predictable and well-worn sentiments.

Dystoria

dis-toh-ree-uh

n. A feeling of irrelevance from the broader forces of history.

n. The otherworldly aura of seeing recordings of a friend in early childhood.

Exulansis

ek-suh-lan-sis

n. The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because others cannot relate to it.

Latigo

lat-i-goh

n. A dizzying sense of awe at the sheer scale of modern society.

n. The nagging sense that you never quite manage to immerse yourself in a foreign culture.

Nodus Tollens

noh-dus tah-luhns

n. The sense that your life doesn't fit into a story.

Morii

moh-ree

n. The desire to capture a fleeting experience.

Moriturism

moh-rich-uh-riz-uhm

n. A tiny jolt of awareness that someday you will die, leaving you with a profound realization of life's impermanence.

adj. Mysteriously compelled to wave to passing strangers in remote locations.

n. The phenomenon of observing your parents interact with people they grew up with, which reboots their personalities into youth mode.

Caucic

kaw-sik

adj. Afraid that your life is predetermined by predictable milestones, wishing for a break to reassess your path.

adj. Feeling grateful to be stranded in a place where you can't do much, temporarily alleviating the burden of constant activity.

Aberbeeg

unknown

vb. To adopt a Mexican accent for playing foreigners in amateur acting.

Articlave

unknown

n. Building that looks too big for the road from a bus.

Boolteens

unknown

pl n. Unused foreign coins on dressing tables.

Botcherby

unknown

n. Principle for British road signposting.

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