nomadism

nomadism

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.

Related terms

• nomadistic

Translations

way of life of a nomad

Catalan: nomadisme m Chinese: Mandarin: 游牧生活 (yóumù shēnghuó) Finnish: paimentolaisuus (fi) Georgian: მომთაბარეობა (momtabareoba) German: Nomadentum (de) n Icelandic: hjarðmennska f Italian: nomadismo (it) m Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Russian: кочево́й о́браз жи́зни m (kočevój óbraz žízni), номади́зм (ru) m (nomadízm) Spanish: nomadismo m Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: göçebelik (tr)

Anagrams

• ammonids, monadism

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /no.məˈdism/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /nu.məˈdism/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /no.maˈdism/

Noun

nomadism m (plural nomadisms)

1. nomadism

Further reading

• “nomadism” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “nomadism” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Romanian

Etymology

From French nomadisme.

Noun

nomadism n (uncountable)

1. nomadism

Declension

declension of nomadism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) nomadism	nomadismul
genitive/dative	(unui) nomadism	nomadismului
vocative	nomadismule