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Definition of Habitus
1. Noun. Person's predisposition to be affected by something (as a disease). "The consumptive habitus"
2. Noun. Constitution of the human body.
Generic synonyms: Bodily Property
Specialized synonyms: Lankiness, Dumpiness, Squattiness, Body Type, Somatotype
Definition of Habitus
1. n. Habitude; mode of life; general appearance.
Definition of Habitus
1. Noun. (zoology) habitude; mode of life; general appearance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Habitus
1. bodily build and constitution [n HABITUS]
Medical Definition of Habitus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Habitus
Literary usage of Habitus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"The habitus tends to conceal remote phylogenetic relationships, the heritage to
reveal them. ... The habitus of a race of fishes is the totality of their ..."
2. Antonius de Carlenis, O.P. by Steven John Livesey (1994)
"eis convenit, quia in hoc, quod est habitus // (O fol. ... convenit cum fide et
distinguitur a scientia, que est habitus evidens. ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... in dependence upon the Aristotelian psychology, as the practical intellect,
ie, in their conception, the potentia or habitus of moral principles, ..."
4. Livy, Books XXI. and XXII by Livy (1893)
"... is habitus animorum non inter eiusdem modo condicionis homines erat sed etiam
inter spectantes vulgo, ut non vincentium magis quam bene ..."
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