Habit vs. Behavior

An action performed on a regular basis.

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

An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.

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

A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.

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

A piece of clothing worn uniformly for a specific activity.

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

(archaic) Outward appearance; attire; dress.

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

An addiction.

Example: ‘He has a 10-cigar habit.’;

(transitive) To clothe.

To inhabit.

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.

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

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.

Example: ‘A man of very shy, retired habits.’;

Outward appearance; attire; dress; hence, a garment; esp., a closely fitting garment or dress worn by ladies; as, a riding habit.

Example: ‘Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy.’; ‘There are, among the statues, several of Venus, in different habits.’;

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.

Example: ‘How use doth breed a habit in a man!’; ‘He who reigns . . . upheld by old repute,Consent, or custom’;

To inhabit.

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

To dress; to clothe; to array.

Example: ‘They habited themselves like those rural deities.’;

To accustom; to habituate.

an established custom;

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

a pattern of behavior acquired through frequent repetition;

Example: ‘she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair’; ‘long use had hardened him to it’;

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

excessive use of drugs

put a habit on

a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up

Example: ‘he has an annoying habit of interrupting me’; ‘we stayed together out of habit’; ‘good eating habits’;

an addictive practice, especially one of taking drugs

Example: ‘a cocaine habit’;

an automatic reaction to a specific situation.

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

Example: ‘a shrub of spreading habit’;

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

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

short for riding habit

clothes

Example: ‘in the vile habit of a village slave’;

a person's health or constitution

Example: ‘a victim to a consumptive habit’;

be dressed or clothed

Example: ‘a boy habited as a serving lad’;

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.

Example: ‘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.’;

(uncountable) Human conduct relative to social norms.

(uncountable) The way a living creature behaves or acts generally.

A state of probation about one's conduct.

Example: ‘He was on his best behavior when her family visited.’;

(countable) An instance of the way a living creature behaves.

Observable response produced by an organism.

(uncountable) The way a device or system operates.

Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; - used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle.

Example: ‘A gentleman that is very singular in his behavior.’;

manner of acting or conducting yourself

the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances;

Example: ‘the behavior of small particles can be studied in experiments’;

(behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people

(psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation

Behavior (American English) or behaviour (British English; see spelling differences) is the actions and mannerisms made by individuals, organisms, systems or artificial entities in conjunction with themselves or their environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the (inanimate) physical environment. It is the computed response of the system or organism to various stimuli or inputs, whether internal or external, conscious or subconscious, overt or covert, and voluntary or involuntary.Taking a behavior informatics perspective, a behavior consists of actor, operation, interactions, and their properties.