habitus

Habitus is spelled the same as and has meanings derived from the Latin word habitus, also defined at Wiktionary.It is sometimes used in academic and technical fields to select one specific sense of the word "habit" or to designate a meaning distinct from the many senses of the word "habit": For the use in sociology see habitus (sociology)In biology, the term is sometimes used to denote a phenetic similarity in external morphology or the characteristic mode of growth or occurrence of an organismIn medicine and psychology, susceptibility to certain types of physical disorders associated with particular body constitution typesIn medieval philosophy, especially Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, and Thomas Aquinas use the term in a way derived from Aristotle as a behavioral manifestation of the essential nature of a thing or a person
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Noun
1. person's predisposition to be affected by something (as a disease); "the consumptive habitus"
(hypernym) sensitivity, predisposition
2. constitution of the human body
(synonym) physique, build, body-build
(hypernym) bodily property
(hyponym) lankiness

n. habitus

n. habit, custom

n. habitus