habitability

[Eng. habitable; -ity.] The quality or state of being habitable; habitablene . "To continue the state and habitability thereof throughout all ages."- Derham : Astro-Theology , bk. vi., ch. ii. hab-it-a-ble, a. [Fr., from Lat. habitabilis , from habito to inhabit.] That may or can be inhabited or dwelt in; fit for the residence of human beings. "Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue." Dryden: Juvenal , sat. x. hab-it-a-ble-ne , s. [Eng. habitable ; -ne .] The quality or state of being habitable; fitne or capacity for being inhabited. "Those ancient problems of the spherical roundne of the habitablenes8 ne of the torrid zone."-Ray: On the Creation, pt. i. hab-it-a-bly, adv. [English habitab ( le ); -ly.] In a habitable manner; so as to be inhabited.