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habitable /ˈhabɪtəb(ə)l /adjectiveSuitable or good enough to live in: the house should be habitable by Christmas...- It's a gigantic ball of fire which supposedly warms the Earth enough to make it habitable for life.
- That we live in a habitable universe of course is a selection effect.
- We may well be living in a habitable portion of an infinite and random universe whose initial state obeyed no laws of Nature at all.
Synonyms fit to live in, inhabitable, fit to occupy, in good repair, usable, liveable in, suitable for residential use formal tenantable Derivativeshabitability /habɪtəˈbɪlɪti / noun ...- Over-consumption, pollution, the loss of species and habitats, and mismanagement of natural resources are undermining global habitability.
- They come away with an appreciation of their planet and the complex systems on Earth that support human habitability.
- The edibility of a planet's plant life is one of the factors of habitability.
OriginLate Middle English: via Old French from Latin habitabilis, from habitare 'possess, inhabit'. |