rootlessness

Definitions

The state of having no settled home or social ties.

A feeling of lacking a sense of belonging or connection to a particular place or community.

Examples

After moving to a new city every year for a decade, she began to feel a profound sense of rootlessness.

The novel explores the theme of rootlessness among immigrants struggling to find their place in a foreign land.

His constant traveling was an attempt to escape the rootlessness that had haunted him since childhood.

Synonyms

instability displacement unsettledness transience nomadism alienation uprootedness

Antonyms

stability rootedness belonging permanence settledness groundedness security