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Habit vs. Culture — What's the Difference?

Habit vs. Culture — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Habit and Culture

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Habit

A habit (or wont as a humorous and formal term) is a routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously.The American Journal of Psychology (1903) defined a "habit, from the standpoint of psychology, [as] a more or less fixed way of thinking, willing, or feeling acquired through previous repetition of a mental experience." Habitual behavior often goes unnoticed in persons exhibiting it, because a person does not need to engage in self-analysis when undertaking routine tasks. Habits are sometimes compulsory.

Culture

Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Humans acquire culture through the learning processes of enculturation and socialization, which is shown by the diversity of cultures across societies. A cultural norm codifies acceptable conduct in society; it serves as a guideline for behavior, dress, language, and demeanor in a situation, which serves as a template for expectations in a social group.

Habit

A settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up
He has an annoying habit of interrupting me
We stayed together out of habit
Good eating habits

Culture

The arts, beliefs, customs, institutions, and other products of human work and thought considered as a unit, especially with regard to a particular time or social group
Edwardian culture.
Japanese culture.

Habit

A long, loose garment worn by a member of a religious order
Nuns in long brown habits, black veils, and sandals
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Culture

These arts, beliefs, and other products considered with respect to a particular subject or mode of expression
Musical culture.
Oral culture.

Habit

A person's health or constitution
A victim to a consumptive habit

Culture

The set of predominating attitudes and behavior that characterize a group or organization
A manager who changed the corporate culture.

Habit

Be dressed or clothed
A boy habited as a serving lad

Culture

Mental refinement and sophisticated taste resulting from the appreciation of the arts and sciences
A woman of great culture.

Habit

A recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition
Made a habit of going to bed early.

Culture

Special training and development
Voice culture for singers and actors.

Habit

An established disposition of the mind or character
A pessimistic habit.

Culture

The cultivation of soil; tillage
The culture of the soil.

Habit

Customary manner or practice
An early riser by habit.

Culture

The breeding or cultivation of animals or plants for food, the improvement of stock, or other purposes.

Habit

An addiction, especially to a narcotic drug.

Culture

The growing of microorganisms, tissue cells, or other living matter in a specially prepared nutrient medium.

Habit

Characteristic appearance, form, or manner of growth, especially of a plant or crystal
"The habit of an apple tree is fine for the small garden" (Robert Dash).

Culture

Such a growth or colony, as of bacteria.

Habit

A distinctive set of clothing or style of dressing, especially of a religious order.

Culture

To cultivate (soil or plants).

Habit

A riding habit.

Culture

To grow (microorganisms or other living matter) in a specially prepared nutrient medium.

Habit

(Archaic) Physical constitution.

Culture

To use (a substance) as a medium for culture
Culture milk.

Habit

To clothe; dress.

Culture

The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.

Habit

To clothe in a habit, especially a nun's habit.

Culture

The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.

Habit

An action performed on a regular basis.
It’s become a habit of mine to have a cup of coffee after dinner.

Culture

The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.

Habit

An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.
By force of habit, he dressed for work even though it was holiday.

Culture

(anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.

Habit

A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.
It’s interesting how Catholic and Buddhist monks both wear habits.

Culture

(botany) Cultivation.

Habit

A piece of clothing worn for a specific activity; a uniform.
The new riding habits of the team looked smashing!

Culture

(microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.

Habit

(archaic) Outward appearance; attire; dress.

Culture

The growth thus produced.
I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died.

Habit

Form of growth or general appearance and structure of a variety or species of plant or crystal.

Culture

A group of bacteria.

Habit

An addiction.
He has a 10-cigar habit.
Kick the habit

Culture

(cartography) The details on a map that do not represent natural features of the area delineated, such as names and the symbols for towns, roads, meridians, and parallels.

Habit

(transitive) To clothe.

Culture

(archaeology) A recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society.

Habit

To inhabit.

Culture

(euphemism) Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.)

Habit

The usual condition or state of a person or thing, either natural or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a religious habit; his habit is morose; elms have a spreading habit; esp., physical temperament or constitution; as, a full habit of body.

Culture

(transitive) to maintain in an environment suitable for growth especially of bacteria cultivate}}

Habit

The general appearance and manner of life of a living organism.

Culture

(transitive) to increase the artistic or scientific interest in something cultivate}}

Habit

Fixed or established custom; ordinary course of conduct; practice; usage; hence, prominently, the involuntary tendency or aptitude to perform certain actions which is acquired by their frequent repetition; as, habit is second nature; also, peculiar ways of acting; characteristic forms of behavior.
A man of very shy, retired habits.

Culture

The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.

Habit

Outward appearance; attire; dress; hence, a garment; esp., a closely fitting garment or dress worn by ladies; as, a riding habit.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy.
There are, among the statues, several of Venus, in different habits.

Culture

The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.
If vain our toilWe ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

Habit

The distinctive clothing worn commonly by nuns or monks; as, in the late 1900's many orders of nuns discarded their habits and began to dress as ordinary lay women.
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
He who reigns . . . upheld by old repute,Consent, or custom

Culture

The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.
What the Greeks expressed by their paidei`a, the Romans by their humanitas, we less happily try to express by the more artificial word culture.
The list of all the items of the general life of a people represents that whole which we call its culture.

Habit

To inhabit.
In thilke places as they [birds] habiten.

Culture

The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms (such as fungi or eukaryotic cells from mulitcellular organisms) in artificial media or under artificial conditions.

Habit

To dress; to clothe; to array.
They habited themselves like those rural deities.

Culture

Those details of a map, collectively, which do not represent natural features of the area delineated, as names and the symbols for towns, roads, houses, bridges, meridians, and parallels.

Habit

To accustom; to habituate.

Culture

To cultivate; to educate.
They came . . . into places well inhabited and cultured.

Habit

An established custom;
It was their habit to dine at 7 every evening

Culture

A particular society at a particular time and place;
Early Mayan civilization

Habit

A pattern of behavior acquired through frequent repetition;
She had a habit twirling the ends of her hair
Long use had hardened him to it

Culture

The tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group

Habit

(religion) a distinctive attire (as the costume of a religious order)

Culture

All the knowledge and values shared by a society

Habit

Excessive use of drugs

Culture

(biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar);
The culture of cells in a Petri dish

Habit

Put a habit on

Culture

(bacteriology) the product of cultivating micro-organisms in a nutrient medium

Culture

A highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality;
They performed with great polish
I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose
Almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art

Culture

The attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization;
The developing drug culture
The reason that the agency is doomed to inaction has something to do with the FBI culture

Culture

The raising of plants or animals;
The culture of oysters

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