Home › Words › T › tenantismtenantismtenantism means the status of a tenant.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, tenantism ranks #33,908 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom tenant + -ism.nounThe status of a tenant.e.g.“Then I saw how a spot no larger than this could be crowded with millions of souls, and yet be apparently uninhabited. Romanism increases the degradation of tenantism, and rum completes it.” — 1866, Gilbert Haven, The Pilgrim's Wallet, page 8:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).