behavior Definition
be·hav·ior (bē hāv′yər, bi-)
noun
- the way a person behaves or acts; conduct; manners
- an organism's responses to stimulation or environment, esp. those responses that can be observed
- an instance of behavior; specif., one of a recurring or characteristic pattern of observable actions or responses
- the way a machine, element, etc. acts or functions
Etymology: < behave by analogy with ME havior, property < OFr aveir < avoir, to have
behavior Related Forms
behavior Synonyms
behavior
n.
Public manner(s)
conduct, deportment, comportment, bearing, mien, demeanor, air, presence, carriage, manner(s), action(s), attitude(s), way of life, speech, talk, tone, morals, habits, tact, etiquette, protocol, social graces, seemliness, correctness, decorum, form, convention, propriety, management, mode, routine, practice, delivery, formality, style, expression, performance, front, code, role, observance, course, guise, act, deed, ethics, way, ways, dealings, what's done*. The action of an organism under given circumstances
function, functioning, adaptation, operation, performance, action, counteraction, execution, act, adjustment, compliance, conduct, response, reaction, reflex, conditioned reflex, typical reaction.
behavior Usage Examples
Adjective modifier
- aggressive: Children who may be meek and withdrawn outside often respond with hostile, aggressive behavior in the playroom.
- antisocial: Previous studies have reported, but not explained, the reason for a robust association between reading achievement and antisocial behavior.
- altruistic: Age at which babies have shown altruistic behavior: 18 months 20.
- deviant: Please don't say anything personal or embarrassing, Grandma does not want to hear about her Granddaughter's deviant behavior from the past!
- anti-social: At the same time you have a tendency to become upset over the anti-social behavior of others.
- compulsive: The journal presents up-to-date clinical, research, and training articles involving a broad range of addictions and compulsive behaviors.
Converse of object
- customize: ENVIRONMENT The following environment symbols are useful for customizing the runtime behavior of the ncurses library.
- simulate: The same program can simulate the behavior of an item containing one of the faults in response to the stimulus.
- exhibit: Even today, Windows file systems exhibit the same behavior.
- mimic: It exactly mimics the behavior of the Python interpreter when it prints a stack trace.
- inherit: Classes List inherits behavior and resources from Core and XmPrimitive classes.
- modify: It also modifies behavior of " cw " command, setting the comment output format to Unicode.
Preposition: as
precipitant: Stress and ' Type A ' behavior as precipitants of Post-Polio Sequelae.
Modifies a noun
- modification: The psychology of polio as prelude to post-polio sequelae: behavior modification and psychotherapy.
- pattern: Cats may choose not to use the litter box for either a medical condition or a behavior pattern.
Noun used with modifier
- default: The default behavior is to not limit the size of the file.
- inmate: The more negative inmate behavior becomes, the more extreme the coercive control will become.
- superclass: This is implemented to return null if the layout is invalid, otherwise the superclass behavior is executed.
- runtime: This makes a CGI's runtime behavior strongly coupled to the environment setup by the web server.
- avoidance: Because, one says easily, it desired to survive and so engaged in avoidance behavior.
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