nubivagant

Etymology

From Latin nubes (“cloud”) + vagant (“wandering”).

Why this word is great

NUBIVAGANT — [Adjective] Wandering in the clouds; moving through the air. From Latin nubes ("cloud") + vagari ("to wander"). Unlike "aeronautic" (which concerns the mechanics of flight) or "celestial" (which fixes the sky as static spectacle), "nubivagant" evokes the dreamer’s drift—untethered, unhurried. It is the slow arc of a hot-air balloon through a bank of cumulus, the way dust motes ride sunbeams in an attic, or the path of a lone heron gliding just above the morning fog—a reminder that not all who wander are lost, but some are simply refusing the ground.

adj

Wandering in the clouds; moving through the air.“On the whole, although a man must do his duty, "painful as it is," (as a Judge would say to a felon whom he is going to sentence to death,) yet it would be better for a collineomaniac to think, now and then, of the desolation he is bringing down upon happy nests; of how many little broods he may cause to starve; of how many robbed mates he will send, nubivagant, whistling and singing tremulous lov”