单词 | nomadism |
释义 | nomadismn. The practice, fact, or state of living an itinerant life. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > race > nomads > [noun] > way of life or ethos gypsydom1833 tinkerdom1834 nomadism1841 Bedouinism1865 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wandering way of life gypsydom1833 nomadism1841 Bedouinism1865 nomady1909 1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) i. 18 In the early history of Asia and Africa, Nomadism and Agriculture are the two antagonist facts. 1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) i. 19 This intellectual nomadism is the faculty of objectiveness or of eyes which everywhere feed themselves. 1854 R. G. Latham Native Races Russ. Empire 74 As the former displaces the latter, agriculture encroaches on nomadism. 1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada xi. 242 I have felt all the pathos of nomadism, from the Aryan migration down. 1910 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 16 397 It is a plain fact of history that these desert clans graduated from nomadism to the settled life by invading the land of Canaan. 1938 Man 202/1 Such minor alterations in habitat..have been mistaken..for evidence that these aborigines had reached that stage of development known as nomadism. 1948 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 53 361/1 Caldwell indicates nomadism, inability to withstand tedium, and irresponsibility as characteristics of psychopathy. 1999 S. L. Kasfir Contemp. Afr. Art vii. 205 He says he comes by this nomadism naturally, since his mother is a trader in Nigeria. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1841 |
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