noun
- customary condition or character: a healthy mental habitude.
- a habit or custom: traditional habitudes of kindliness and courtesy.
- Obsolete. familiar relationship.
noun
- rare habit or tendency
“custom, habit,” c.1400, from Old French habitude (14c.), from Latin habitudinem (nominative habitudo) “condition, appearance, habit,” from past participle stem of habere (see habit (n.)). Related: Habitudinal (late 14c.).