Habit

Habit or Habits may refer to:

  • Habit (psychology), an acquired pattern of behavior that often occurs automatically
    • Drug addiction is sometimes referred to as "having a drug habit".
  • Habituation, non-associative learning in which there is a progressive diminution of behavioral response probability with repetition of a stimulus
  • Crystal habit, as it applies to the typical appearance of minerals
  • Religious habit, a distinctive dress worn by the members of a religious order
  • Riding habit, riding clothes worn for hunting or for exhibition
  • Habit (biology), the instinctive actions of animals and the natural tendencies or growth form of plants
  • Habit (album), the third album by late Korean pop singer U;Nee
  • "Habit" (song), a song by Pearl Jam
  • Habits (album), an album by Neon Trees
  • Habit evidence, a term used in the law of evidence
  • Habit (film), 1997 horror film

Famous quotes containing the word habit:

    The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “My mother is jelly-hearted and she has a brain of jelly:
    Sweet, quiver-soft, irrelevant. Not essential.
    Only a habit would cry if she should die....”
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people’s minds.
    Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)