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Inhabitiveness

Inhabitiveness \In*hab"it*ive*ness\, n. (Phrenol.) See Inhabitativeness.

What the phrenologists call inhabitiveness.
--Lowell.

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inhabitiveness

n. (alternative form of inhabitativeness English)

Usage examples of "inhabitiveness".

And it is much to be deplored that the place to which you devote so considerable a portion of the whole term of your natural life, should be so sadly destitute of anything approaching to a cosy inhabitiveness, or adapted to breed a comfortable localness of feeling, such as pertains to a bed, a hammock, a hearse, a sentry box, a pulpit, a coach, or any other of those small and snug contrivances in which men temporarily isolate themselves.