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| - | + | '''Habit''' or '''Habits''' may refer to: | |
| - | # An [[action]] done on a [[regular]] [[basis]]. | + | * [[Habit (psychology)]], an acquired pattern of behavior that often occurs automatically |
| - | #: ''It’s become a '''habit''' of mine to have a cup of coffee after dinner.'' | + | ** [[Drug addiction]] is sometimes referred to as "having a drug habit". |
| - | # An action [[perform]]ed [[repeatedly]] and [[automatical]]ly, usually without [[awareness]]. | + | * [[Habituation]], non-associative learning in which there is a progressive diminution of behavioral response probability with repetition of a stimulus |
| - | #: ''By force of '''habit''', he dressed for work even though it was holiday.'' | + | * [[Religious habit]], a distinctive dress worn by the members of a religious order |
| - | # A long piece of [[clothing]] [[wear|worn]] by [[monk]]s and [[nun]]s. | + | * [[Habit (biology)]], the instinctive actions of animals and the natural tendencies or growth form of plants |
| - | #: ''It’s interesting how Catholic and Buddhist monks both wear '''habits'''''. | + | * [[Habit evidence]], a term used in the law of evidence |
| - | # A piece of clothing worn [[uniform]]ly for a specific activity. | + | |
| - | #: ''The new riding '''habits''' of the team looked smashing!''. | + | |
| - | # Customary manner of dress. | + | |
| - | #* '''1719''', [[Daniel Defoe]], ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'' | + | |
| - | #*: ''… it was always my fate to choose for the worse, so I did here; for having money in my pocket and good clothes upon my back, I would always go on board in the '''habit''' of a gentleman; and so I neither had any business in the ship, or learned to do any.'' | + | |
| - | # An [[addiction]]. | + | |
| - | #: ''He has a 10-cigar '''habit'''.'' | + | |
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| == Etymology == | == Etymology == | ||
| From Middle English, from Old French habit, from Latin [[habitus]] (“condition, bearing, state, appearance, dress, attire”), from habeō (“I have, hold, keep”); see have. | From Middle English, from Old French habit, from Latin [[habitus]] (“condition, bearing, state, appearance, dress, attire”), from habeō (“I have, hold, keep”); see have. | ||
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| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | * [[Habitat]] | ||
| + | * [[Habitus (disambiguation)]] | ||
| + | * [[Bad Habits (disambiguation)]] | ||
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Habit or Habits may refer to:
- Habit (psychology), an acquired pattern of behavior that often occurs automatically
- Drug addiction is sometimes referred to as "having a drug habit".
- Habituation, non-associative learning in which there is a progressive diminution of behavioral response probability with repetition of a stimulus
- Religious habit, a distinctive dress worn by the members of a religious order
- Habit (biology), the instinctive actions of animals and the natural tendencies or growth form of plants
- Habit evidence, a term used in the law of evidence
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French habit, from Latin habitus (“condition, bearing, state, appearance, dress, attire”), from habeō (“I have, hold, keep”); see have.
See also
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