Habitus

Habitus is spelled the same as and has meanings derived from the Latin word "habitus", also defined at Wiktionary.

It is sometimes used in academic and technical fields to select one specific sense of the word "habit" or to designate a meaning distinct from the many senses of the word "habit":
* For the use in sociology see habitus (sociology)
* In biology, the term is sometimes used to denote a phenetic similarity in external morphology or the characteristic mode of growth or occurrence of an organism (see also ecomorphology)
* In medicine and psychology, susceptibility to certain types of physical disorders associated with particular body constitution types
* In medieval philosophy, especially Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, and Thomas Aquinas use the term in a way derived from Aristotle as a behavioral manifestation of the essential nature of a thing or a person

Other uses

* A Latin surname or "cognomen"
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* "Habitus", a 1998 novel by James Flint (British novelist)