inhabitivenessn.
/ɪnˈhabɪtɪvnɪs/ 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 n.)
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > faculty psychology > psychological study of the skull > [noun] > faculty of attachment to place
inhabitiveness1815
inhabitativeness1838
1815 Edinb. Rev. 25 234 To the Order of Feelings..belong the following species..3. Inhabitiveness.
1838 S. 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.
1842 S. C. Hall & A. M. Hall Ireland II. 398 Perhaps it proceeds from our having ‘Inhabitiveness’ largely developed.
1854 J. R. Lowell Cambr. 30 Years Ago in Prose Wks. (1890) I. 51 You know my (what the phrenologists call) inhabitiveness and adhesiveness.
2. The quality of being suited for habitation.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [noun] > habitability
habitableness1653
habitability1715
inhabitability1865
inhabitiveness1896
liveability1922
1896 Daily 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.
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