habitus
Example Sentences
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The Mackey family habitus is characterized by great pride in hard work, and a healthy skepticism of cushy lifestyles and anyone without calluses on their hands.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023
For too many people who have huge libraries, the whole project is one of social signaling and bourgeois habitus.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2022
“Courage is a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts,” she writes.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2017
Even in this brutish habitus, there is trust, loyalty, and love.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 28, 2016
Such an accidental mode of being is what Aristotle called ἕξις, and the scholastics habitus.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
