habitude
- noun
- /ˈhæbɪˌtjuːd/
- The artist's creative habitude involved working late into the night, producing new pieces regularly.
Examples
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Many people struggle to change their eating habitude when starting a new diet.
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Les vieilles habitudes sont tenaces.
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By mid-century, Goodwin's argumentative habitude was already notorious.
Academic text (2018) -
Ici, nous avons nos habitudes.
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These standards are in keeping with Dewey's commitment to lifelong learning: "The important thing for education is the exercise or practice of the faculties of the mind till they become thoroughly established habitudes" (Dewey, 1944, p. 35).
Academic text (2006) -
His daily meditation has become a vital part of his morning habitude.
Synonyms
A regular way of doing something that repeats over time
A regular action you do often without thinking
A regular way of doing things
A regular pattern of actions done as a habit or custom
A regular way of doing things that becomes hard to change
A usual way of behaving, speaking, or moving that makes a person easy to recognize
A habit or skill that feels automatic after a lot of practice
To do something without thinking because you do it very often
A usual way a person does things
Days or tasks happen the same way again and again
Antonyms
How Habitual
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Habitude comes from the Latin habitus, from habere meaning 'to have', and it shares the same root as the everyday word habit. So a habitude is a way of behaving you 'have' regularly, a usual pattern of action.