Definitions for "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.
n. (L. habitus, condition, appearance, dress) the external appearance or way of growth of a plant, e.g. climbing, erect, bushy, etc.; the tendency of a plant to grow in a certain way.
Growth pattern, shape or 'form' of a plant, eg. prostrate, round-headed, etc.
Keywords:  attire, tunic, worn, ladies, monks
Outward appearance; attire; dress; hence, a garment; esp., a closely fitting garment or dress worn by ladies; as, a riding 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.
To dress; to clothe; to array.
The general appearance and manner of life of a living organism.
The attributes of the appearance of a crystal or aggregate.
The characteristic growth or general appearance of a plant.
a chain of "stimulus-response" pairs
a response that has become completely separated from its eliciting stimulus
A learned response to a stimulus that has become automatic and routine, requiring little or no cognitive effort. It is often said that the reading and library habit if not learned as a child, will not be learned as an adult.
To accustom; to habituate.
The aesthetic equivalent of that which is known in physics as "entropy"; the basic category in aesthetics. "Aesthetic" means "experienceable," and "habit" is anaesthesia: we do not perceive what we are accustomed to. Accordingly, habit as the basic category of aesthetics is a measure of experience, of perception, and of being perceived: the more unusual, the more perceptible (shocking), and the older, the less experienceable.
Keywords:  abitudine
Keywords:  hardscape
Hardscape
a breezy, atmospheric ballad, sounding like Mazzy Star with Martsch in place of Hope Sandoval
an action or series of actions that we perform in a subconscious manner
a subconsciously controlled activity
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.
As a quality, it is a comparatively permanent accident disposing a thing well or ill in its being.
a thing done often and hence, usually done easily
Keywords:  vicious, defeats, mars, supreme, enemy
a deficiency, it is a vicious enemy that mars and defeats Supreme Personality
Keywords:  shackle, free
A shackle for the free.
in 17th century, doublet and breeches, sometimes with mantle and stockings, all of the same color.
Keywords:  inhabit
To inhabit.
an addiction to someone or something (alcoholism, drugs, food, sex, gambling, shopping or smoking)
an automated reaction designed to keep you at equilibrium while, at the same time successfully dealing with a threat
a frozen interpretation from the past that is applied to the present
Keywords:  shift, focus
a shift in focus
Keywords:  dine, evening, established, custom
an established custom; "it was their habit to dine at 7 every evening"
Keywords:  friend, false, problems, leads, health
a false friend when it leads to personal, financial, and health problems
Keywords:  difficult, quality, change
a quality that is difficult to change
Keywords:  excessive, drugs
excessive use of drugs
Keywords:  dependence, physical
state of physical dependence.
Keywords:  lives, animal, natural, home
at—Where an animal lives; its natural home.
put a habit on