Why this word is great
ITINERANCY — [Noun] The state or practice of traveling from place to place, especially as a characteristic of certain professions such as preaching or labor. Formed within English from the adjective itinerant (meaning "traveling from place to place") + the noun-forming suffix -ancy; the adjective itinerant is from Late Latin itinerant-, itinerans, present participle of itinerari ("to journey"), from Latin iter, itiner- ("journey, road"). Unlike "sedentarism," which implies a rooted, anchored permanence, or a "circuit," which suggests a prescribed, repeating loop, itinerancy is the condition of perpetual, patternless transit. It is the dust on the trouser cuff of the harvest hand, the suitcase left half-unpacked beside a rented bed, and the worn leather of a saddle where a preacher carries his Bible—a life defined not by destinations, but by the profound wear of the road itself, where home is a verb.