What are some opposite words for habit?
Antonyms for habit
ˈhæb ɪthabit
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term habit.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
habit
Habit is a tendency or inclination toward an action or condition, which by repetition has become easy, spontaneous, or even unconscious, or an action or regular series of actions, or a condition so induced. Custom is the uniform doing of the same act in the same circumstance for a definite reason; routine is the doing of customary acts in a regular and uniform sequence and is more mechanical than custom. It is the custom of tradesmen to open at a uniform hour, and to follow a regular routine of business until closing-time. Habit always includes an involuntary tendency, natural or acquired, greatly strengthened by frequent repetition of the act, and may be uncontrollable, or even unconscious. Habitude is habitual relation or association. Custom is chiefly used of the action of many; habit of the action of one; we speak of the customs of society, the habits of an individual. Fashion is the generally recognized custom in the smaller matters, especially in dress. A rule is prescribed either by some external authority or by one's own will; as, it is the rule of the house; or, I make it my invariable rule. System is the coordination of many acts or things into a unity, and is more and better than routine. Use and usage denote the manner of using something; we speak of one person's use of language, but of the usage of many; a use or usage is almost always a habit. Practise is the active doing of something in a systematic way; we do not speak of the practise, but of the habit of going to sleep; we speak of a tradesman's custom, a lawyer's or a physician's practise. Educationally, practise is the voluntary and persistent attempt to make skill a habit; as, practise in penmanship. Wont is blind and instinctive habit like that which attaches an animal to a locality: the word is now almost wholly poetic. Compare DRESS.
Synonyms:
custom, fashion, habitude, practise, routine, rule, system, usage, use, wont
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
habit
Antonyms:
dishabituation, inexperience, inconversance, desuetudeSynonyms:
habituation, custom, familiarity, association, inurement, usage, practice, way, manner
Princeton's WordNet
habit, wontnoun
an established custom
"it was their habit to dine at 7 every evening"
Synonyms:
substance abuse, use, wont, drug abuse, riding habithabit, usenoun
(psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition
"owls have nocturnal habits"; "she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair"; "long use had hardened him to it"
Synonyms:
usage, use, use of goods and services, consumption, role, drug abuse, riding habit, utilization, substance abuse, utilisation, employment, economic consumption, manipulation, wont, usance, enjoyment, function, purpose, exercisehabitnoun
a distinctive attire worn by a member of a religious order
Synonyms:
substance abuse, use, wont, drug abuse, riding habithabitnoun
the general form or mode of growth (especially of a plant or crystal)
"a shrub of spreading habit"
Synonyms:
substance abuse, use, wont, drug abuse, riding habithabit, riding habitnoun
attire that is typically worn by a horseback rider (especially a woman's attire)
Synonyms:
substance abuse, use, wont, drug abuse, riding habitsubstance abuse, drug abuse, habitverb
excessive use of drugs
Synonyms:
use, substance abuse, wont, drug abuse, riding habithabitverb
put a habit on
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
How to use habit in a sentence?
Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
The use of grocery deliveries in Latin American is broad compared to European countries where Glovo operates, here they already have the habit of ordering pharmaceutical products and groceries for delivery.
We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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