populousness
High resident count
Populousness is the quality of having a large population.
The word describes how densely inhabited a place is: The populousness of Tokyo makes housing expensive.
It's the noun form of populous, used when discussing demographic density as an abstract quality rather than simply calling a place crowded.
Excessive accumulation causing blockage
- overcrowdedFilled beyond capacity
- packedFilled to capacity
- crampedUncomfortably lacking space
- jam-packedExtremely crowded or full
sardines · thronged · jostling · heaving · mobbed · swarming · bustling · teeming
Permanent occupants of place
- densityMass-to-volume ratio
- residentsPeople living somewhere
- multitudeVery large number
- massesBulk or populace
dwellers · citizens · demographics · census · headcount · concentration · occupancy · saturation
Large important city
- megacityUrban area exceeding ten million
- conurbationMerged continuous urban area
- metropolitanOf a major city
- urbanizationPopulation shift toward cities
sprawl · cityscape · municipality · borough · district · infrastructure · housing · apartment
Prospering vigorously
- boomingExperiencing rapid growth
- growingIncreasing or enlarging
- expandingGrowing in scope
- burgeoningExpanding or developing rapidly
proliferating · swelling · multiplying · fertile · fecund · productive · prosperous · vibrant
congestion
Excessive accumulation causing blockage
- overcrowdedFilled beyond capacity
- packedFilled to capacity
- crampedUncomfortably lacking space
jam-packed · sardines · thronged · jostling · heaving · mobbed · swarming · bustling · teeming · clogged
inhabitants
Permanent occupants of place
masses · dwellers · citizens · demographics · census · headcount · concentration · occupancy · saturation · overcrowding
metropolis
Large important city
- megacityUrban area exceeding ten million
- conurbationMerged continuous urban area
- metropolitanOf a major city
urbanization · sprawl · cityscape · municipality · borough · district · infrastructure · housing · apartment · tenement
flourishing
Prospering vigorously
burgeoning · proliferating · swelling · multiplying · fertile · fecund · productive · prosperous · vibrant · bustling
populousnesssparseness
Lack of density
sparsity · emptiness · desolation · low density · sparse population
populousnessemptiness
Absence of substance
desertedness · desolation · barrenness · vacancy · abandonment
people, popular, population, populism, unpopular, peoples, populate, populace, popularize