Behavior vs Condition - What's the difference?
behavior | condition |
(uncountable) Human conduct relative to social norms.
(uncountable) The way a living creature behaves or acts generally.
(uncountable, informal) A state of probation about one's conduct.
(countable) An instance of the way a living creature behaves.
(countable, uncountable, biology, psychology) Observable response produced by an organism.
(uncountable) The way a device or system operates.
A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
A requirement, term or requisite.
(legal) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
The health status of a medical patient.
The state or quality.
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A particular state of being.
(obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
To subject to the process of acclimation.
To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
To place conditions or limitations upon.
* Tennyson
To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Sir Walter Raleigh
To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
(US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.
To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
* Sir W. Hamilton
As nouns the difference between behavior and condition
is that behavior is human conduct relative to social norms while condition is a logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.As a verb condition is
to subject to the process of acclimation.behavior
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Alternative forms
* behaviour (everywhere except US) * (l), (l), (l), (l)Noun
(en-noun)- He was on his best behavior when her family visited.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "behavior": human, animal, physical, chemical, mechanical, electrical, organizational, corporate, social, collective, parental, interpersonal, sexual, criminal, appropriate, inappropriate, correct, incorrect, right, wrong, good, bad, acceptable, unacceptable, poor, ethical, unethical, moral, immoral, responsible, irresponsible, normal, odd, deviant, abnormal, violent, abusive, aggressive, offensive, defensive, rude, stupid, undesirable, verbal, nonverbal, learned, professional, unprofessional, adaptive, compulsive, questionable, assertive, disgusting, self-destructive.External links
* * English words prefixed with be-condition
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Noun
(en noun)- A man of his condition has no place to make request.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "condition")Synonyms
* (the health or state of something) fettleDerived terms
* conditional * condition subsequent * human condition * in condition * interesting condition * mint condition * necessary condition * precondition * statement of condition * sufficient conditionVerb
(en verb)- I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.
- They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
- Seas, that daily gain upon the shore, / Have ebb and flow conditioning their march.
- Pay me back my credit, / And I'll condition with ye.
- It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children.
- (McElrath)
- to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study
- To think of a thing is to condition .