behavior

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    manner of acting or conducting yourself
    the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances
    (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people
    (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation

Word Origin

behavior (n.)
late 15c., essentially from behave, but with ending from Middle English havour "possession," a word altered (by influence of have) from aver, noun use of Old French verb aveir "to have."

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Example

1. Changing behavior requires more than intention .
2. Her behavior returned to normal after the quake .
3. But its non-detection points to some rather strange solar behavior .
4. What is dying is our rss reading behavior .
5. We believe that chinese society should take this horrific behavior more seriously .

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