uprootedness

Definitions

The state of being displaced or removed from one's native environment, home, or cultural roots.

A feeling of alienation or lack of belonging resulting from being uprooted.

Examples

The refugees struggled to overcome a profound sense of uprootedness after fleeing their war-torn homeland.

Her poetry captures the lingering uprootedness felt by those who move between cultures without ever truly belonging to one.

Years of constant travel left him with a chronic feeling of uprootedness that made it difficult to settle down in any single city.

Synonyms

displacement rootlessness alienation dislocation transience instability homelessness

Antonyms

rootedness belonging stability settledness connection permanence integration