itinerancy

8.2

Travel from place to place for work

noun
/aɪˈtɪnəran.si/

: itinerancia

He embraced a life of itinerancy, moving from town to town in search of work.

Examples

This argument involved asserting once again the premise that itinerancy was inherently harmful to children.

Academic text (1998)
For some ancient Christian travelers, itinerancy itself was more important than visitation to holy sites.

Academic text (2006)
Itinerancy (and not poverty) was consistently identified as the primary danger to the health of Traveller children.

Academic text (1998)
For many social workers, itinerancy is essential to their job, as they regularly travel to various communities.
The itinerancy of the traveling circus allows it to bring entertainment to towns across the country.

Synonyms

travel

vsitinerancy

797 1.0

Going from one place to another for work or pleasure

is focused on moving mainly for work or official duty rather than all reasons

traveling

vsitinerancy

146 1.1

Going from one place to another, often over a distance

is used for planned movement for work, duty, or official tasks

itineration

vsitinerancy

9.9

Travel from place to place to give talks, often to preach

is about systematic going for work, duty, or official purposes

Antonyms

stability

363 3.1

Being steady and not likely to change

settlement

234 3.2

A place where people start living together in a new area

How Mobile

nomadism

7.9

itinerancy

8.2

commuting

1 2.3

sedentariness

8.5

Surface Forms

itinerancy singular

itinerancies plural

Morphology

itinerancy = itinerant (transparent) = itinerant + ancy

A straightforward nominalization of the adjective 'itinerant' with the suffix '-ancy', yielding the state/practice of being itinerant.

Etymology

The word itinerancy comes from the Latin word iter, which means 'journey', and the same root is in itinerary, a plan for a trip. So itinerancy is the practice of traveling from place to place for work or duty.