vagrancy

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: va=gran=cy

CIDE DICTIONARY

vagrancy, 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."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

vagrancy

Journey

N journey, travel, traveling, wayfaring, campaigning, journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation, noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulism, outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt, equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie, basophobia, roving, vagrancy, pererration, marching and countermarching, nomadism, vagabondism, vagabondage, hoboism, gadding, flit, flitting, migration, emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration, wanderlust, plan, itinerary, guide, handbook, guidebook, road book, Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray, map, road map, transportation guide, subway map, procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column, vehicle, automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive, legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters, traveler, depot, railway station, station, traveling, ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic, circumforanean, circumforaneous, noctivagrant, mundivagrant, locomotive, wayfaring, wayworn, travel-stained, on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare, by the Marrowbone stage: in transitu, en route, Int, come along!.

Deviation

N deviation, swerving, obliquation, warp, refraction, flection, flexion, sweep, deflection, deflexure, declination, diversion, digression, depart from, aberration, divergence, zigzag, detour, divagation, wandering, vagrancy, evagation, bypaths and crooked ways, byroad, sidling, knight's move at chess, deviating, aberrant, errant, excursive, discursive, devious, desultory, loose, rambling, stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag, crab-like, astray from, round about, wide of the mark, to the right about, all manner of ways, circuitously, obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.