vagrancy

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

vagrancy
    n 1: the state of wandering from place to place; having no
         permanent home or means of livelihood

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Vagrancy \Va"gran*cy\, n.
   The quality or state of being a vagrant; a wandering without
   a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism.
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         Threatened away into banishment and vagrancy. --Barrow.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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