tenancy vs habitation

tenancy and habitation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tenancy	Yes	No	No	No
habitation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, habitation is a hyponym of tenancy; that is, habitation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than tenancy:

tenancy: an act of being a tenant or occupant
habitation: the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men)

Other hyponyms of tenancy include inhabitancy, inhabitation.

tenancy (noun)	habitation (noun)
an act of being a tenant or occupant	the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men)
	housing that someone is living in
	the native habitat or home of an animal or plant