habitude

noun

ˈha-bə-ˌtüd How to pronounce habitude (audio)
Definition of habitudenext
1
as in aptitude
a habitual attraction to some activity or thing a lifelong habitude for talking too much

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2
as in habit
a usual manner of behaving or doing contrary to his long-established habitude, he forwent his morning constitutional in favor of a leisurely breakfast

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for habitude
  1. aptitude
  2. habit
  3. tendency
  4. ritual
  5. inclination
  6. practice
  7. devices
  8. trick
Noun
  • King contrasted the country’s technological expertise with its moral aptitude.
    — Dawn M. Turner, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • But his energy and aptitude on the boards looked to be in midseason form.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 4 July 2026
Definition of aptitude
Noun
  • Stay consistent Don’t automatically change your watering habits just because the temperature changes.
    — Heather Zidack, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2026
  • For now, facelifts before retirement age remain a niche habit of the unusually wealthy and vain.
    — Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 11 July 2026
Definition of habit
Noun
  • His tendency to strike out was a weakness dating to his high school days in North Texas.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026
  • Short for adversarial hallucination squatting, HalluSquatting is built on an LLM’s inherent tendency to hallucinate the resource identifiers hosted in repositories and registries.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026
Definition of tendency
Noun
  • After matches, Japanese fans once again stayed behind to collect trash from the stadium rows, continuing a practice that has become one of the most recognizable rituals in global sport.
    — Julia Dhar, Time, 11 July 2026
  • For travelers, this shift requires participating in a rigorous environmental ritual that challenges the traditional hands-off approach to vacationing.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
Definition of ritual
Noun
  • The Swift rescue mission needed to launch into an unusually low-inclination orbit to reach its target.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
  • The 11 satellites on board are flying to a mid-inclination orbit.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 July 2026
Definition of inclination
Noun
  • In March, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung warned on X that oil refiners and corporations engaged in price-fixing would be held accountable, vowing to deploy all lawful measures against unethical business practices.
    — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 6 July 2026
  • Even with this practice, there should be an effort, if possible, to avoid training or competition during the hottest times of day.
    — Nicole Williams, AJC.com, 6 July 2026
Definition of practice
Noun
  • Grab bars — rails attached to walls, particularly in bathrooms — help provide balance and prevent falls, preventing serious injuries, said Jim Christian, founder of the effort to push Medicare to cover the devices, Safety Bars for America.
    — Panashe Matemba-Mutasa, Mercury News, 13 July 2026
  • Both the Russian and Chinese governments have been compromising routers for years, sometimes in prolonged tugs-of-war to wrest control of devices the other has already commandeered.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026
Definition of devices
Noun
  • Australia responded six minutes later following a trick lineout move involving hooker Brandon Paenga-Amosa throwing to scrumhalf Ryan Lonergan at the front, getting the return pass and starting the movement that finished with him scoring.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 July 2026
  • By stop-starting Gvardiol — a trick that lulls defenders into a false sense of security — and then faking to go one way and then the other, Messi found space where there seemed to be none and set up Julian Alvarez for Argentina’s third goal.
    — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 10 July 2026
Definition of trick
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“Habitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/habitude. Accessed 16 Jul. 2026.

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