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Habitual vs Recurring - What's the difference?

habitual | recurring |

As adjectives the difference between habitual and recurring

is that habitual is behaving in a regular manner, as a habit while recurring is happening or occurring frequently, with repetition.

As a verb recurring is

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habitual

English

Alternative forms

* habituall (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Behaving in a regular manner, as a habit.
    • He's a habitual chainsmoker .
  • Recurring, or that is performed over and over again.
    • Her habitual lying was the reason for my mistrust .
  • Regular or usual.
    • Professor Franklein took his habitual seat at the conference table .

    Derived terms

    * habitually

    Related terms

    * habit

    recurring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • Happening or occurring frequently, with repetition.
    • He has recurring asthma attacks.
    Revenge is a recurring theme in this novel.
  • (mathematics) Of a decimal: having a set of digits that is repeated indefinitely.
    • Every rational number can be written as either a terminating decimal or a recurring decimal.

    Synonyms

    * recurrent * repetitive