Plural of habitude; several customary behaviors, ways of acting, or established patterns.
Plural form of habitude, from French habitude and Latin habitudinem.
The habitudes of a culture—the unspoken, repeated behaviors everyone just 'knows' to do—are often invisible to people in that culture but glaringly obvious to outsiders, which is why anthropologists find them so useful for studying society.
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