MEANING
The extent to which a place can support living organisms or suitable human residence.
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Words that belong together
- planetary habitability
- habitat habitability
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The mission assessed planetary habitability before selecting a landing site.
Word forms
- Base
- habitability
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.
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