habitus

plural habiti · plural habituses

1. uncountableusuallybiologyHabitude; mode of life; bearing.
2. uncountableusuallychiefly invertebratesbiologyGeneral appearance.

   [M]any species having eschariform zoaria in quiet water are able to assume the membraniporiform habitus in strongly agitated water.

   1963, Alan H. Cheetham, Late Eocene Zoogeography of the Eastern Gulf Coast Region, page 30

3. uncountableusuallybiologyhabit
4. uncountableusuallyanatomythe general shape and appearance of the body, usually with reference to weight, adipose distribution, posture, and gait; most often called by the collocation body habitus.
5. uncountableusuallyhuman sciencesThe lifestyle, values, dispositions and expectations of particular social groups that are acquired through the activities and experiences of everyday life.

   A wrestler could gain the rank of ōzeki based on his competitive achievements, but the promotion to yokozuna implied the presence of a certain habitus than embodied the quintessential traditional Japaneseness.

   2019, Raúl Sánchez García, “Reformulation, expansion, and hybridisation of Japanese martial arts”, in The Historical Sociology of Japanese Martial Arts (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part III (Martial artists)

6. uncountableusuallyThe liturgical clothing of monks, nuns and the clerical community, metaphorically referring to the religious mode of life.