rootlessness
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8.1
- noun
- /ˈruːtləsnəs/
:
desarraigo
- After years of traveling without settling down, he felt a profound rootlessness and longed for a place to call home.
Examples
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Meanwhile, subjugation created a sense of rootlessness and fear among hostel residents, making them even easier targets for external manipulation.
Academic text (1998) -
"Our common destiny seems to be our common rootlessness.
Academic text (1997) -
A simple symbol: my rootlessness, her rootedness.
Fiction book (1993) -
We lose our way, just as I did coming from the Sonnet Revival meeting on Monday: we are creatures of doubt and rootlessness.
Academic text (2013) -
To the extent that Set surrenders to this spirit of place, he overcomes his rootlessness and lack of self-knowledge.
Academic text (1994) -
It integrates a spiritual dimension and is more concerned with the feelings of rootlessness and alienation.
Academic text (1998) -
The in-between, hybridized characters are deracinated, left with the feeling of rootlessness and in transit between two cultures with a lack of belonging.
Blog text (14) -
And second, we have both realized that, despite our rootlessness, we have always oriented ourselves—physically and emotionally—by the mountains and valleys of the western United States.
Blog text (15) -
Cronica Ide Aztlan: A Migrant's Tale (1977) is a work of social protest that chronicles the rootlessness and alienation at the core of the migratory life.
Academic text (1990) -
For these characters, the dominant emotions are rootlessness and loss—Sterling is an orphan raised by his aunts, while both Seese's and Alegria's parents move around a lot, and Seese's eventually split up.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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8.1
A feeling of being strange or not belonging
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7.7
Feeling separate from a group or community
Moving from place to place without a home or clear purpose
A feeling of not belonging after leaving home or familiar places
A feeling of not being at home or comfortable in a place
Antonyms
How Rooted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rootlessness uses root in the same way as in the phrase 'family roots' and the ending -less means 'without'. So, rootlessness describes being 'without roots', which is why it also means having no permanent home or feeling of belonging.