Definition of "habitus" [‖Hab•i•tus]

• The physical and constitutional characteristics of an individual, especially as related to the tendency to develop a certain disease. (noun)

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• "Council of Trent has refrained from applying the term habitus to sanctifying grace."
• "Note 6: My use of the term "orthodox" is not the same as Bourdieu's, embedded in habitus — the social reproduction of structures in a stable society."
• "This collective ethos forms what Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist, called the habitus, the coherent amalgam of practices linking habit with inhabitance."