habit
noun
[ ˈhabɪt ]
• a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up.
• "he has an annoying habit of interrupting me"
Similar:
practice,
custom,
pattern,
routine,
style,
convention,
policy,
wont,
way,
manner,
mode,
norm,
tradition,
matter of course,
rule,
usage,
tendency,
propensity,
inclination,
bent,
proclivity,
proneness,
disposition,
predisposition,
mannerism,
quirk,
characteristic gesture,
characteristic,
foible,
trick,
trait,
idiosyncrasy,
peculiarity,
singularity,
oddity,
eccentricity,
feature,
accustomed to,
used to,
given to,
habituated to,
addicted to,
no stranger to,
not new to,
wont to,
inclined to,
Opposite:
unaccustomed to,
• a long, loose garment worn by a member of a religious order.
• "nuns in long brown habits, black veils, and sandals"
• a person's health or constitution.
• "a victim to a consumptive habit"
habit
verb
• be dressed or clothed.
• "a boy habited as a serving lad"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French abit, habit, from Latin habitus ‘condition, appearance’, from habere ‘have, consist of’. The term originally meant ‘dress, attire’, later coming to denote physical or mental constitution.
