vagabondism
Life without address
Vagabondism is the practice or lifestyle of wandering from place to place without a fixed home or regular employment.
The term carries connotations of aimlessness and rootlessness, sometimes romanticized as freedom from conventional responsibilities, other times viewed negatively as idleness or vagrancy.
His years of vagabondism took him across three continents before he finally settled down.
Aimless, rootless traveler
- wandererRootless, roving person
- itinerantMoving for work
- hoboItinerant without fixed address
- trampWandering homeless person
rover · rambler · wayfarer · transient · gadabout · footloose · peripatetic · rolling stone
Moving without fixed purpose
- journeyingAct of traveling somewhere
- travellingMoving from place to place
- trekkingLong-distance foot travel
- voyagingTraveling long distances
peregrination · odyssey · wayfaring · rambling · gallivanting · restlessness · itchy feet · road trip
State of having no anchor
- transienceBrevity of existence
- instabilityTendency toward unpredictable change
- dislocationForced out of position
- alienationState of being isolated
statelessness · exile · dispossession · uprootedness · homelessness · marginalization · placelessness · impermanence
Movement to new territory
- caravanTraveling group with goods
- pastoralOf countryside or clergy care
- BedouinMiddle Eastern nomadic herder
- herdingManaging animal groups
yurt · Tuareg · Romani · Traveller · tinker · camp · encampment · seasonal
Release from constraint
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- independenceFreedom from external control
- unrestrainedNot held back
- unfetteredFree from restriction
unshackled · unbound · unconstrained · untethered · escapism · self-exile · detachment · uncommitted
Rejects prevailing social standards
- unconventionalDeparting from standard practice
- beatnikFifties counterculture member
- counter-cultureMovement opposing mainstream values
- artisticShowing imaginative skill
dropout · outsider · flâneur · romantic · Kerouac · Beat Generation · hippie · alternative
drifter
Aimless, rootless traveler
tramp · rover · rambler · wayfarer · transient · gadabout · footloose · peripatetic · rolling stone · roamer
roaming
Moving without fixed purpose
- journeyingAct of traveling somewhere
- travellingMoving from place to place
- trekkingLong-distance foot travel
voyaging · peregrination · odyssey · wayfaring · rambling · gallivanting · restlessness · itchy feet · road trip · open road
rootlessness
State of having no anchor
- transienceBrevity of existence
- instabilityTendency toward unpredictable change
- dislocationForced out of position
alienation · statelessness · exile · dispossession · uprootedness · homelessness · marginalization · placelessness · impermanence · unsettledness
migration
Movement to new territory
- caravanTraveling group with goods
- pastoralOf countryside or clergy care
- BedouinMiddle Eastern nomadic herder
herding · yurt · Tuareg · Romani · Traveller · tinker · camp · encampment · seasonal · migratory
liberation
Release from constraint
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- independenceFreedom from external control
- unrestrainedNot held back
unfettered · unshackled · unbound · unconstrained · untethered · escapism · self-exile · detachment · uncommitted · carefree
nonconformist
Rejects prevailing social standards
- unconventionalDeparting from standard practice
- beatnikFifties counterculture member
- counter-cultureMovement opposing mainstream values
artistic · dropout · outsider · flâneur · romantic · Kerouac · Beat Generation · hippie · alternative · off-grid
vagabondismsedentariness
Habitual physical inactivity
rootedness · domesticity · permanence · staying put · settledness
vagabondismconventionality
Adherence to accepted customs
conformity · respectability · bourgeois life · orderliness · regularity
vagabondismproperty ownership
Holding title to land
homeownership · careerism · establishment · landholding · householding