A person that is able to saunter around and wander detached from
society with no other purpose than to be an acute observer of his surroundings. He/she is deliberately aimless, just soaking in his surroundings through different perspectives. Perspectives that are untouched by others who see these surroundings as
normal and don't even dwell on it.
Flâneur (pronounced flɑnœʁ), from the French noun flâneur, means stroller, lounger, saunterer, or loafer.
The flâneur was essential to any picture of the streets of
Paris, a literary type from the 19th-century in
France. Now flâneur has become an important symbol for scholars, artists and writers.