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populousness

  • a word derived from populous.
    populous
    adjective
    full of residents or inhabitants, as a region; heavily populated.

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By all accounts too, their populousness is greatly decreased.

From An Account of the Customs and Manners of the Micmakis and Maricheets Savage Nations, Now Dependent on the Government of Cape-Breton by Antoine Simon Maillard

As for the city of Kherson, its site was badly chosen, and its seeming prosperity and populousness during the empress's presence quickly passed away.

From Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris

All methods of supporting populousness, except by the interest of the proprietors, are violent and ineffectual.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume

The Philippines alone have improved in civilization, wealth, and populousness.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

I must confess to you, however, that the populousness of this landscape is not agreeable to me.

From Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble