Vagrancy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Vagrancy \Va"gran*cy\, n.
     The quality or state of being a vagrant; a wandering without
     a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Threatened away into banishment and vagrancy. --Barrow.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  vagrancy
       n : the state of wandering from place to place; having no
           permanent home or means of livelihood

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "vagrancy":
     Wanderjahr, afoot and lighthearted, bumming, dilatoriness,
     discursion, divagation, do-nothingness, drifting, ergophobia,
     errantry, faineancy, faineantise, flitting, gadding, hoboism,
     indolence, inertia, inexertion, itineracy, itinerancy, laggardness,
     laziness, lotus-eating, nomadism, peregrination, pererration,
     ramble, rambling, remissness, roam, roaming, rove, roving,
     shiftlessness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, spring fever,
     straying, traipsing, vagabondage, vagabondia, vagabondism,
     wandering, wanderlust, wayfaring