Habit vs. Tendency

Habitnoun

An action performed on a regular basis.

‘It’s become a habit of mine to have a cup of coffee after dinner.’;

Tendencynoun

A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.

‘Denim has a tendency to fade.’;

Habitnoun

An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.

‘By force of habit, he dressed for work even though it was holiday.’;

Tendencynoun

(politics) An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.

Habitnoun

A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.

‘It’s interesting how Catholic and Buddhist monks both wear habits.’;

Tendencynoun

Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.

‘Writings of this kind, if conducted with candor, have a more particular tendency to the good of their country.’; ‘In every experimental science, there is a tendency toward perfection.’;

Habitnoun

A piece of clothing worn uniformly for a specific activity.

‘The new riding habits of the team looked smashing!’;

Tendencynoun

an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others;

‘he had an inclination to give up too easily’; ‘a tendency to be too strict’;

Habitnoun

(archaic) Outward appearance; attire; dress.

Tendencynoun

an inclination to do something;

‘he felt leanings toward frivolity’;

Habitnoun

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

Tendencynoun

a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect;

‘the alkaline inclination of the local waters’; ‘fabric with a tendency to shrink’;

Habitnoun

An addiction.

‘He has a 10-cigar habit.’;

Tendencynoun

a general direction in which something tends to move;

‘the shoreward tendency of the current’; ‘the trend of the stock market’;

Habitverb

(transitive) To clothe.

Tendencynoun

an inclination towards a particular characteristic or type of behaviour

‘for students, there is a tendency to socialize in the evenings’; ‘criminal tendencies’;

Habitverb

To inhabit.

Tendencynoun

a group within a larger political party or movement.

Habitnoun

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.

Habitnoun

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

Habitnoun

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.’;

Habitnoun

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.’;

Habitnoun

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’;

Habitverb

To inhabit.

‘In thilke places as they [birds] habiten.’;

Habitverb

To dress; to clothe; to array.

‘They habited themselves like those rural deities.’;

Habitverb

To accustom; to habituate.

Habitnoun

an established custom;

‘it was their habit to dine at 7 every evening’;

Habitnoun

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’;

Habitnoun

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

Habitnoun

excessive use of drugs

Habitverb

put a habit on

Habitnoun

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’;

Habitnoun

an addictive practice, especially one of taking drugs

‘a cocaine habit’;

Habitnoun

an automatic reaction to a specific situation.

Habitnoun

general shape or mode of growth, especially of a plant or a mineral

‘a shrub of spreading habit’;

Habitnoun

a long, loose garment worn by a member of a religious order

‘nuns in long brown habits, black veils, and sandals’;

Habitnoun

short for riding habit

Habitnoun

clothes

‘in the vile habit of a village slave’;

Habitnoun

a person's health or constitution

‘a victim to a consumptive habit’;

Habitverb

be dressed or clothed

‘a boy habited as a serving lad’;

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 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.

‘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.’;