habit [includes commonness due to frequency of occurrence]

Roget-categorie 613

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.1. Volition in general
›› 5.1.1. Acts of volition

#613. Habit [includes commonness due to frequency of occurrence]

zelfstandig naamwoord

habit, habitude — assuetude^†, assuefaction^†, wont — run, way.
common state of things, general state of things, natural state of things, ordinary state of things, ordinary course of things, ordinary run of things — matter of course — beaten path, beaten track, beaten ground.
prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice — prevalence, observance — conventionalism, conventionality — mode, fashion, vogue — etiquette etc. (gentility) 852 — order of the day, cry — conformity etc. 82 — consuetude, dustoor^†.
one's old way, old school, veteris vestigia flammae [Lat.] — laudator temporis acti [Lat.].
rule, standing order, precedent, routine — red-tape, red-tapism^† — pipe clay — rut, groove.
cacoethes [Lat.] — bad habit, confirmed habit, inveterate habit, intrinsic habit &c. — addiction, trick.
training etc. (education) 537 — seasoning, second nature, acclimatization — knack etc.

werkwoord

be wont etc. adj.. fall into a rut, fall into a custom etc. (conform to) 82 — tread the beaten track, follow the beaten track, tread the beaten path, follow the beaten — stare super antiquas vias [Lat.] — move in a rut, run on in a groove, go round like a horse in a mill, go on in the old jog trot way.
habituate, inure, harden, season, caseharden — accustom, familiarize — naturalize, acclimatize — keep one's hand in — train etc. (educate) 537.
get into the way, get into the knack of — learn etc. 539 — cling to, adhere to — repeat etc. 104 — acquire a habit, contract a habit, fall into a habit, acquire a trick, contract a trick, fall into a trick — addict oneself to, take to, get into.
be habitual etc. adj. — prevail — come into use, become a habit, take root — gain upon one, grow upon one.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

habitual — accustomary^† — prescriptive, accustomed etc. v. — of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence — consuetudinary^† — wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot — well-trodden, well-known — familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped — prevailing, prevalent — current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited — of course, admitted, understood.
conformable.
etc. 82 — according to use, according to custom, according to routine — in vogue, in fashion, in, with it — fashionable etc. (genteel) 852.
wont — used to, given to, addicted to, attuned to, habituated etc. v. — in the habit of — habitue — at home in etc. (skillful) 698 — seasoned — imbued with — devoted to, wedded to.
hackneyed, fixed, rooted, deep-rooted, ingrafted^†, permanent, inveterate, besetting — naturalized — ingrained etc. (intrinsic) 5.

bijwoord

habitually etc. adj. — always etc. (uniformly) 16.
as usual, as is one's wont, as things go, as the world goes, as the sparks fly upwards — more suo, more solito [Lat.] — ex more.
as a rule, for the most part — usually, generally, typically etc. adj. — most often, most frequently.

uitdrukking

cela s'entend [Fr.] — abeunt studia in mores [Lat.] — adeo in teneris consuescere multum est [Lat.] — consuetudo quasi altera natura [Lat.] [Cicero]; hoc erat in more majorum [Lat.] — How use doth breed a habit in a man! " [Two Gentlemen]; magna est vis consuetudinis [Lat.] — morent fecerat usus [Lat.] [Ovid].

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