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habit, practice, usage, custom, wont mean a way of acting fixed through repetition.
habit implies a doing unconsciously and often compulsively.
practice suggests an act or method followed with regularity and usually through choice.
usage suggests a customary action so generally followed that it has become a social norm.
custom applies to a practice or usage so steadily associated with an individual or group as to have almost the force of unwritten law.
wont usually applies to a habitual manner, method, or practice of an individual or group.
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Middle English, from Anglo-French, from us use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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“Usage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/usage. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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