1) Habit 1) Habitual mode of behavior 2) Pattern 3) Practice 
• (n.) Habit of body or of action. • (n.) Habitual association, intercourse, or familiarity. • (n.) Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations.
1. Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations. 'The same ideas having immutably the same habitudes one to another.' (Locke) 'The verdict of the judges was biased by nothing else than heir habitudes of thinking.' (Landor) ... 2. Habitual association, intercourse, or familiarity. 'To ...
Hab'i·tude (hăb'ĭ*tūd) noun [ French, from Latin habitudo condition. See Habit .] 1. Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations. South. « The same ideas having immutably the same 
[n] - habitual mode of behavior
noun habitual mode of behavior