habitual patterns
Ingrained behavioral tendencies
Habitual patterns are behaviors or ways of thinking that have become automatic through repetition.
The phrase is somewhat redundant—habits are patterns by nature—but emphasizes the ingrained, recurring quality of certain actions: She recognized her habitual patterns of avoidance.
Common in self-help and psychology contexts when examining behaviors that resist conscious change.
- routineRegular sequence of actions
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- like clockworkWith precise regularity
- repetitionAct of redoing
- same old same oldWearisome repetition of routine
automatic · ingrained · deeply rooted · unconscious · cycle · groove · rut · stuck in a rut · compulsion · tendency · reflex · muscle memory · conditioning · addiction · default · loop · recurring · on repeat
habitual patternsimpulsive behavior
Actions taken without forethought
anomalies · aberrations · whims · erratic behavior · exceptions
habitual patternschaos
Complete disorder and confusion
randomness · disorder · unpredictability · irregularity · disorganization
habitual, habit, habits, habituate, habituated, habituation, habitable, inhabit, inhabitant