itinerancy
The state or quality of being itinerantThe state or quality of being itinerant.
Meaning
2 senses(uncountable, usually)The state or quality of being itinerant.
I went through a period of itinerancy in my youth.
(uncountable, usually)The Methodist pastorate, or itinerant preaching in general.
I joined the itinerancy at the age of 25.
Origin
By surface analysis, Latin itiner- + -ancy.By surface analysis, Latin itiner- + -ancy.
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Forms
plural: itinerancies| Singular | itinerancy |
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uncountable
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.