Habit vs Convention - What's the difference?
habit | convention |
An action done on a regular basis.
* Washington Irving
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A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.
A piece of clothing worn uniformly for a specific activity.
(archaic) Outward appearance; attire; dress.
* Shakespeare
* Addison
* 1719 , (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
(botany) form of growth or general appearance of a variety or species of plant, e.g. erect, prostrate, bushy.
An addiction.
A meeting or gathering.
* {{quote-news
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, author=Katherine Stewart
, title=How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren
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A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates
The convening of a formal meeting
A formal agreement, contract or pact
(international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
A generally accepted principle, method or behaviour.
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As nouns the difference between habit and convention
is that habit is an action done on a regular basis while convention is a meeting or gathering.As a verb habit
is to clothe.habit
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) ; see have.Noun
(en noun)- a man of very shy, retired habits
Ian Sample
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- Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy.
- There are, among the statues, several of Venus, in different habits .
- it was always my fate to choose for the worse, so I did here; for having money in my pocket and good clothes upon my back, I would always go on board in the habit of a gentleman; and so I neither had any business in the ship, or learned to do any.
Synonyms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) habiten, from (etyl) habiter, from (etyl) ; see have.External links
* * ----convention
English
(wikipedia convention)Noun
(en noun)- The convention was held in Geneva.
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- ''The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution
- ''The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations
- In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re-
placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below:
(40) VP → V AP (PP)
(Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention , taken to be
optional.)
- ''Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention , not binding formal protocol
- The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.