habit; customary behavior
Refers to a personal, often unconscious, repeated action or tendency. Used for daily routines, good/bad habits, and learned behaviors.
It's my habit to jog every morning.
I want to break my bad habits.
custom; practice; convention; tradition
Refers to a socially established way of doing things, often shared by a group, region, or culture. Can overlap with personal habit when the behavior is culturally ingrained.
In Japan, there is a custom of bowing.
In that region, there is no custom of wearing white clothes to weddings.
I have a habit of running every morning.
I want to develop the habit of getting up early.
It's hard to change one's eating habits.
Writing in my diary every night has become a habit.
He decided to quit his bad habit.
This region has its own unique customs.
習慣 refers to a broader habit or custom that may or may not happen daily, while 日課 specifically means a task or activity done every single day.
習慣 is the everyday word for a personal or social habit, while 習い is more literary and usually appears in set phrases describing general truths about life.
習慣 is a neutral word for habit or custom, while 惰性 specifically implies continuing an action passively, without fresh motivation, often with a negative nuance.
習慣 is a neutral, everyday word for a custom or habit, while 常習 is more formal and usually implies a repeated, undesirable pattern (often legal, like drug use or crime).
習慣 is a broad term for personal or societal habits, while しきたり refers specifically to long-established, often unwritten traditional practices within a group.
習慣 describes a fixed habit or custom one performs regularly, while 慣れ describes the inner state of no longer finding something difficult or strange.
習慣 covers personal habits as well as broad social customs, whereas 慣行 is limited to established procedures within a group or institution.
habitual; customary