An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.
By force of habit, he dressed for work even though it was holiday.
A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.
It’s interesting how Catholic and Buddhist monks both wear habits.
From Middle English habit, from Latin habitus (“condition, bearing, state, appearance, dress, attire”), from habeō (“I have, hold, keep”). Distantly related to gift. Replaced Middle English abit, from...
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To inhabit.