HABITUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does habitude mean? 

• HABITUDE (noun)
  The noun HABITUDE has 1 sense:

1. habitual mode of behavior

  Familiarity information: HABITUDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HABITUDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Habitual mode of behavior

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("habitude" is a kind of...):

pattern; practice (a customary way of operation or behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "habitude"):

daily round; round (the usual activities in your day)

 Context examples 

Her plan for the morning thus settled, she sat quietly down to her book after breakfast, resolving to remain in the same place and the same employment till the clock struck one; and from habitude very little incommoded by the remarks and ejaculations of Mrs. Allen, whose vacancy of mind and incapacity for thinking were such, that as she never talked a great deal, so she could never be entirely silent; and, therefore, while she sat at her work, if she lost her needle or broke her thread, if she heard a carriage in the street, or saw a speck upon her gown, she must observe it aloud, whether there were anyone at leisure to answer her or not.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)