nomadism

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English

Etymology

nomad +‎ -ism

Noun

nomadism (countable and uncountable, plural nomadisms)

  1. The way of life of a nomad or nomads.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 160:
      Like the Mesolithic age of 10,000-8000 B.C., the period 6000-4000 B.C. seems to be one of the fall of fortresses and the rise of pastoral nomadism.

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Noun

nomadism m (plural nomadisms)

  1. nomadism

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French nomadisme. By surface analysis, nomad +‎ -ism.

Noun

nomadism n (uncountable)

  1. nomadism

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