habitus

1. 1.

   person's predisposition to be affected by something (as a disease)

   “the consumptive habitus”

   Broadersensitivity
2. 2.

   constitution of the human body

   Synonymsphysiquebuildbody-build

   Broaderbodily property

   Narrowerlankinessdumpinessbody type

Other forms of habitus

plural

habituses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about habitus

What does habitus mean?

habitus means "person's predisposition to be affected by something (as a disease)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in habitus?

habitus has 3 syllables: ha-bi-tus. The stress falls on "ha".

What is another word for habitus?

Close synonyms include physique, build, body-build. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is habitus a common word?

habitus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.