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inhabitiveness|ɪnˈhæbɪtɪvnɪs|
[f. inhabit v. + -ive + -ness.]
1. Phrenology. The disposition to remain always in the same abode; attachment to country and home: a faculty to which an ‘organ’ is allotted by some phrenologists.
(By Combe (Elem. Phrenol., 1824, 28) enlarged in scope and identified with concentrativeness.)
1815Edin. Rev. XXV. 234 To the Order of Feelings..belong the following species..3. Inhabitiveness. 1838S. Smith Princ. Phrenol. 98 These and other considerations have led us to think it extremely probable that the faculty hitherto called Inhabitiveness or Concentrativeness is..the love of continuity, of endurance, of sameness, of permanency of occupation, emotion, feeling, existence. 1842S. C. Hall Ireland II. 398 Perhaps it proceeds from our having ‘Inhabitiveness’ largely developed. 1854Lowell Cambridge 30 Yrs. Ago Prose Wks. 1890 I. 51 You know my (what the phrenologists call) inhabitiveness and adhesiveness.
2. The quality of being suited for habitation.
1896Daily News 14 Dec. 6/6 The members always prized in their original locale a certain cosiness and inhabitiveness, which tended to give the Arts Club its peculiar sociality. |