HABITUDES Synonyms: 101 Similar and Opposite Words

habitudes

noun

plural of habitude

as in tendencies

a habitual attraction to some activity or thing a lifelong habitude for talking too much

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as in habits

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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Noun

Hope produces hype But these tendencies leave us open to exploitation by companies that want our money.

— Jonathan Fahey, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
Safety positioning matters, but so do protection rules and pre-snap signals and down-and-distance tendencies.

— Alec Lewis, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of tendencies

Noun

One example is forming behaviors that can become habits, such as blocking out time for lunch.

— Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2026
Elsewhere, Llínas films the modern-day streets, statues, and buildings where Borges once lived and visited, accompanied by casual pontifications on the author’s values and habits.

— Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of habits

Noun

For this class, the premise is that your purpose in life lies to the intersection of your values, your aptitudes and your interests.

— Dana Taylor, USA Today, 6 May 2026
This model reflects Japan’s long-standing corporate culture, which prioritizes new hires for their general potential—their aptitudes and aspirations, as opposed to their current skill sets or university majors—and then trains them on the job.

— GRACIA LIU-FARRER, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2025

Definition of aptitudes

Noun

African rainmakers have long served as spiritual leaders in their communities, performing rituals to ask deities to bring rain.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2026
These impositions are gradual and incredibly well-meaning, although even their medicinal intentions come laced with the word of a foreign lord and savior, whose crucifixes and tales of forgiveness are at odds with the local rituals.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of rituals

Noun

Putin will eventually leave office, whether by death, illness, or—against all observable inclinations—stepping aside.

— Julian G. Waller, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026
People with gene variants that affect these inclinations may also be at a higher risk of developing obesity and type 2 diabetes, researchers found.

— Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 28 July 2026

Definition of inclinations

Noun

In their nine years together, Leigh had often thought of Beck as a kind of charming insectoid alien in a human suit learning Earth customs.

— Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
After going through customs, the team will settle at its hotel before heading to the practice facility of the Flamengo soccer club.

— Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of customs

Noun

College football has gone national, abandoning regional affinities and local rivalries.

— Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2026
The caucus will join the hundreds of other such groups centered around shared affinities and interests that exist in Congress.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of affinities

Noun

Staff are tuned-in and attentive, knowledgeable and efficient, without dispensing any of the sirs and ma’ams and stilted affections of fancier places.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Sep. 2026
Newcomers Álvarez and Knight couldn’t be better in their newlywed roles, convincing in their giddy love scenes, their casual affections, their unwanted suspicions and, most of all, their terror at whatever is lurking in the air and in their souls.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2026

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