rootlessness

rootless | American Dictionary

rootless
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈrut·ləs, ˈrʊt-/

rootlessadjective[not gradable] (ORIGIN)

having no family origins or connections, or having no feeling of belonging to a particular place

Examples of rootless

rootless
Perhaps the restless quest to rediscover age-old communities is an integral element of the rootless experience of modernity.
Frequent doubling of instruments at the octave reinforces an archaic, timeless and rootless quality.
In fact, many inhabitants experience a sense of displacement and rootless-ness.
As a rootless vagabond, he had no allegiances or obligations.
Rare folds are tight to isoclinal, rootless or with strongly attenuated limbs.
Simpleshear deformation is indicated by these inclusions and by rare rootless asymmetric folds.
The volatile, rootless quality comes to the fore in the lengthy interlude.
A rootless phylogenetic tree was constructed by the neighbour-joining method.
They are deformed into tight isoclinal folds and rootless intrafolial folds.
They represented an elderly and settled population who could reasonably be regarded as the inheritors of local tradition, and not a rootless and mobile working class.
They are alternating with high-strain zones which are characterized by a well-developed foliation parallel to the compositional banding due to transposition, rootless isoclinal folds and boudin formation.
Bunce makes clear that she aims to mount a vigorous defence of area studies and historical knowledge, against rootless comparativists and present-minded transitologists.
In the period of glasnost, the liberal media portrayed those years as the time of devastating ideological campaigns in the cultural sphere + zhdanovshchina and the onslaught on 'rootless cosmopolitans'.
I am the chairman of the all-party group for the homeless and rootless.
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