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Bohemianism

British  
/ bəʊˈhiːmɪəˌnɪzəm /

noun

  1. unconventional behaviour or appearance, esp of an artist

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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But being nearly a decade older than the young poet, Ferlinghetti identified more with earlier Bohemianism.

From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2017

Mankiewicz bubbled with ideas for bringing out the Bohemianism of Puccini's Bohemians.

From Time Magazine Archive

Liberalism is sort of like Bohemianism, except that a liberal sits thinking in an ivory tower and has liquor and stuff while the Bohemian sits in an attic and starves.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has a horror of Bohemianism, would rather stain his Bond Street suits with paint than cover them up with a smock.

From Time Magazine Archive

In it Dickens dwells upon a kind of life which seems greatly to have attracted him—the career of the traveling showman, with its oddities, its careless Bohemianism, and its happy-go-lucky, hand-to-mouth existence.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various