itinerancy
nounEtymology By surface analysis, Latin itiner- + -ancy.
1
Usually The state or quality of being itinerant.
- I went through a period of itinerancy in my youth.
- But his disdain for his former itinerancy had made it so he could not recognize the reasons a person should stay.2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2023), page 269:
2
Usually The Methodist pastorate, or itinerant preaching in general.
- I joined the itinerancy at the age of 25.