vagabondage
Life without address
Vagabondage is the state or practice of living as a vagabond—wandering from place to place without a fixed home or employment.
The word carries a slightly literary or old-fashioned tone, sometimes romanticizing rootless wandering, other times suggesting vagrancy or social marginality: He spent his twenties in vagabondage across Europe.
Without fixed residence
- itinerantMoving for work
- wandererRootless, roving person
- roamerOne who wanders
- transientTemporary, soon departing
drifter · peripatetic · wayfarer · rover · Bedouin · Tuareg · pastoralist · caravan
Moving without fixed purpose
- ramblingLong-winded and unfocused
- gallivantingRoaming for pleasure
- wayfaringTraveling, especially walking
- journeyingAct of traveling somewhere
trekking · backpacking · globetrotting · adventure · exploration · odyssey · pilgrimage · quest
Floating without control
- aimlessHaving no direction
- rudderlessLacking guidance or direction
- unmooredReleased from anchorage
- directionlessWithout aim or guidance
castaway · marooned · flotsam · jetsam · purposeless · displaced · uprooted · floating
Wandering homeless person
- hoboItinerant without fixed address
- bumIdle vagrant
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
- homelessWithout a dwelling
panhandling · unsheltered · streetlife · dispossessed · down-and-out · indigence · squatter · outcast
Absence of constraint
- unshackledReleased from restraints
- unboundedHaving no limits
- unfetteredFree from restriction
- free-spiritedUninhibited by social expectations
nonconformity · bohemian · unconventional · independence · autonomy · escape · unrestrained · detachment
nomadic
Without fixed residence
transient · drifter · peripatetic · wayfarer · rover · Bedouin · Tuareg · pastoralist · caravan · yurt
roaming
Moving without fixed purpose
- ramblingLong-winded and unfocused
- gallivantingRoaming for pleasure
- wayfaringTraveling, especially walking
journeying · trekking · backpacking · globetrotting · adventure · exploration · odyssey · pilgrimage · quest · sightseeing
adrift
Floating without control
- aimlessHaving no direction
- rudderlessLacking guidance or direction
- unmooredReleased from anchorage
directionless · castaway · marooned · flotsam · jetsam · purposeless · displaced · uprooted · floating · anchorless
tramp
Wandering homeless person
- hoboItinerant without fixed address
- bumIdle vagrant
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
homeless · panhandling · unsheltered · streetlife · dispossessed · down-and-out · indigence · squatter · outcast · dosshouse
freedom
Absence of constraint
- unshackledReleased from restraints
- unboundedHaving no limits
- unfetteredFree from restriction
free-spirited · nonconformity · bohemian · unconventional · independence · autonomy · escape · unrestrained · detachment · untethered
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
vagabondagesettlement
Resolved dispute or colony
sedentariness · rootedness · domesticity · residence · homesteading
vagabondagerespectability
Moral and social worthiness
establishment · bourgeois life · citizenship · property ownership · householding
vagabondageemployment
Paid occupation status
industry · occupation · enterprise · industriousness · purposefulness