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  2. Glossary of botanical terms - Wikipedia

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    Nodding, falling headlong or face down; inclined, stooping, or bowing forward. Applied to many species with a nodding, stooping habit, such as many Narcissus and Dierama species. Many plant species bear the specific epithet "cernua". cespitose An alternative spelling of caespitose, meaning tufted or turf-like, e.g. the growth form of some ...

  3. Habit (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Habit, equivalent to habitus in some applications in biology, refers variously to aspects of behaviour or structure, as follows: In zoology (particularly in ethology ), habit usually refers to aspects of more or less predictable behaviour , instinctive or otherwise, though it also has broader application.

  4. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).

  5. Habit - Wikipedia

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    Good Habits Poster. A habit (or wont, as a humorous and formal term) is a routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously. [1]A 1903 paper in the American Journal of Psychology defined a "habit, from the standpoint of psychology, [as] a more or less fixed way of thinking, willing, or feeling acquired through previous repetition of a mental experience."

  6. Bad habit - Wikipedia

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    A key factor in distinguishing a bad habit from an addiction or mental disease is the element of willpower. If a person still seems to have control over the behavior then it is just a habit . [ 7 ] Good intentions are able to override the negative effect of bad habits but their effect seems to be independent and additive — the bad habits ...

  7. Sedentary lifestyle - Wikipedia

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    Exercise trends such as watching television are a common characteristic of a sedentary lifestyle.. Sedentary lifestyle is a lifestyle type, in which one is physically inactive and does little or no physical movement and/or exercise. [1]

  8. Proust (essay) - Wikipedia

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    Breathing is habit. Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits, since the individual is a succession of individuals; the world being a projection of the individual's consciousness (an objectivation of the individual's will, Schopenhauer would say), the pact must be continually renewed, the letter of safe-conduct brought up to date ...

  9. Creature of Habit - Wikipedia

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    Creature of Habit may refer to: one who is extremely used to their own habits and does not function well without them; Creatures of Habit (Buffy comic), trade paperback collecting comic stories based on the Buffy television series "Creature of Habit", song by Bug Hunter from their 2020 album Bigger Than Myself