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behavior
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behavior
n.
conduct, manner of acting
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Behavior
Behavior or behaviour (see spelling differences) is the range of actions and made by individuals, organisms, systems, or artificial entities in conjunction with themselves or their environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the (inanimate) physical environment. It is the response of the system or organism to various stimuli or inputs, whether or external, conscious or subconscious, overt or covert, and voluntary or involuntary.
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behavior
Noun
1. manner of acting or conducting yourself
(synonym) behaviour, conduct, doings
(hypernym) activity
(hyponym) aggression
2. the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances; "the behavior of small particles can be studied in experiments"
(synonym) behaviour
(hypernym) action, activity, activeness
3. (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people
(synonym) demeanor, demeanour, behaviour, conduct, deportment
(hypernym) trait
(hyponym) manners
4. (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation
(synonym) behaviour
(hypernym) activity
(hyponym) territoriality
(classification) psychology, psychological science
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Behavior
(n.)
Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle.
Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. About
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behavior
Synonyms and related words:
Pavlovian conditioning, act, acting, action, actions, activism, activity, bearing, comportment, conditioned response, conditioning, conduct, demeanor, deportment, doing, employment, exercise, function, functioning, instrumental conditioning, manner, manners, mien, movements, negative reinforcement, occupation, operant conditioning, operation, operations, play, positive reinforcement, practice, praxis, psychagogy, reeducation, reflex, reinforcement, reorientation, swing, unconditioned reflex, way, work, working, workings
Pavlovian conditioning, act, acting, action, actions, activism, activity, bearing, comportment, conditioned response, conditioning, conduct, demeanor, deportment, doing, employment, exercise, function, functioning, instrumental conditioning, manner, manners, mien, movements, negative reinforcement, occupation, operant conditioning, operation, operations, play, positive reinforcement, practice, praxis, psychagogy, reeducation, reflex, reinforcement, reorientation, swing, unconditioned reflex, way, work, working, workings
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