habitancy

American  

[hab-i-tn-see] / ˈhæb ɪ tn si /

noun

plural

habitancies

1. the act or fact of inhabiting; inhabitancy.

2. the total number of inhabitants; population.

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Etymology

Origin of habitancy

First recorded in 1785–95; habit(ant) ¹ + -ancy

Example Sentences

Allyce Wood's "Habitancy" uses string to create human and canine shadow figures on the walls of a vacant room, while Ryan Molenkamp's "Strain" seemingly internalizes the rolling/spiky shapes of Seattle's hills and broadcast towers in a conventional black-and-white painting, only to have them escape the painting's bounds and become 3-D structures wrapping their way around both the inside and outside of the house.

From Seattle Times

The Creator has not altogether effaced his own image in any region of human habitancy.

From Project Gutenberg

The little villages, so unlike our own, and yet so admirably fitted for peasant comfort, the homesteads embedded in plantations of willows, the neatness of every thing round the farm-houses, and even the sleekness of the cattle, which seemed by their tameness to form a part of the habitancy—all were objects of constant remark on our march; and we could easily comprehend the horror with which the arrival of a French commissariat must strike these comfortable burghers.

From Project Gutenberg

There were no signs of habitancy; but there were white bears to be seen, in plenty.

From Project Gutenberg

They saw no signs of habitancy, and few tracks of animals.

From Project Gutenberg