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What is dromomania?

What is dromomania? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An irrational impulse to wander or travel without purpose.
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Partly, it was a dromomania I have — I even have it when I drive a car.
Mr. President, as we now approach the August recess, it is natural that a certain dromomania begins to set in.
The fugue became the episode, and dromomania became the disorder of impulsive fugue, covering not only hysterical and epileptic fugues but also people who were neurasthenic.
Elsewhere, an object, its identity known only to Favaretto, is buried under several inches of dirt, apparently in homage to a man stricken with dromomania — the compulsion to travel.
When Forrest took off on that long run of his, cris-crossing the US with a band of straggling devotees in the film Forrest Gump, he was probably suffering from dromomania.
Whereas hysteria and epilepsy had an element of theory behind them, dromomania was purely descriptive.

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