itinerancy

English

Etymology

From itinerant +‎ -ancy.

Noun

itinerancy (usually uncountable, plural itinerancies)

1. The state or quality of being itinerant.

   I went through a period of itinerancy in my youth.

   • 2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2023), page 269:

     But his disdain for his former itinerancy had made it so he could not recognize the reasons a person should stay.

2. The Methodist pastorate, or itinerant preaching in general.

   I joined the itinerancy at the age of 25.