rootlessness
无根性,无根状态,无根,无根主义
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- : having no roots.
- : having no basis of stability; unsteady: a rootless feeling resulting from economic and social change.
- : having no place or position in society; not in accord with the environment: the homeless, rootless wanderer.
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Examples
She is rootless and stateless, having little in the way of rights or protection from exploitation.
They are living a rootless existence in 6th of October City, the satellite settlement now home to thousands of civil-war refugees.
There had been neighbors—quiet-spoken folk with something more real about them than most of today's rootless world knew.
There is no end to the quickening power of knowledge; but mere individual, rootless acts of benevolence are soon added up.
And thus it is that when anything happens to disturb or break up their earthly home their rootless religiosity goes with it.
Nitella flexis is almost a rootless plant, and will grow without any care.
Within Walden's lifetime, others, cut off from their own race, lonely and rootless in the midst of the new.