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BEHAVIOUR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Manner of acting or controlling yourself
Synonyms:
behavior; behaviour; conduct; doings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("behaviour" is a kind of...):
activity (any specific behavior)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "behaviour"):
aggression (deliberately unfriendly behavior)
bohemianism (conduct characteristic of a bohemian)
dirty pool (conduct that is unfair or unethical or unsportsmanlike)
dirty tricks (underhand commercial or political behavior designed to discredit an opponent)
discourtesy; offence; offense; offensive activity (a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others)
easiness (the quality of being easy in behavior or style)
the way of the world; the ways of the world (the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation
Synonyms:
behavior; behaviour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("behaviour" is a kind of...):
activity (any specific behavior)
Domain category:
psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "behaviour"):
territoriality (the behavior of a male animal that defines and defends its territory)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people
Synonyms:
behavior; behaviour; conduct; demeanor; demeanour; deportment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("behaviour" is a kind of...):
trait (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "behaviour"):
manners (social deportment)
citizenship (conduct as a citizen)
swashbuckling (flamboyantly reckless and boastful behavior)
correctitude; properness; propriety (correct or appropriate behavior)
improperness; impropriety (an improper demeanor)
manner; personal manner (a way of acting or behaving)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances
Example:
the behavior of small particles can be studied in experiments
Synonyms:
behavior; behaviour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("behaviour" is a kind of...):
action; activeness; activity (the state of being active)
Context examples:
Exposing malaria-transmitting mosquitoes to light at two-hour intervals during the night or at late daytime could inhibit their biting behaviour and reduce malaria transmission.
(Shining light at night quells mosquito bites, SciDev.Net)
Broadly speaking, executive function refers to a set of processes that enable planning, problem solving, flexible reasoning and regulation of behaviours and emotions.
(Childhood obesity linked to structural differences in key brain regions, University of Cambridge)
Understanding how species adapt their behaviour once predators have been eradicated – and how quickly this occurs - could better inform efforts to support the recovery of a target species.
(A decade after the predators have gone, Galapagos Island finches are still being spooked, University of Cambridge)
Some of the latter had already been to see me, and reported strange things of my beauty, behaviour, and good sense.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It was certainly rather eccentric behaviour.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I watched for some time, curiously, but there seemed nothing extraordinary about their behaviour.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Frontotemporal dementia is a form of dementia that causes changes in personality and behaviour, and language difficulties.
(Mechanism behind neuron death in motor neurone disease and frontotemporal dementia discovered, University of Cambridge)
But the princess was very gentle and meek, so she said nothing to her maid’s ill behaviour, but got upon her horse again.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Why they should not openly acknowledge to her mother and herself, what their constant behaviour to each other declared to have taken place, Elinor could not imagine.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
This leads to a reduction of spontaneous locomotion and aggressiveness, suppression of conditioned response, antagonism of stereotyped behaviour and hyperactivity induced by amphetamines.
(Molindone Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)
