behaviors
UK spellingbehaviours
- 1Plural of behavior.
Researchers tracked the animals' feeding behaviors over several weeks.
Certain behaviors emerged only when the group felt threatened.
Note
A plural that only some meanings of behavior will take. Where behavior means the habits of a living creature or an organism's observable responses, it counts naturally: feeding behaviors, mating behaviors. Where it means conduct judged against social norms, or the way a device or system operates, it usually stays a mass noun, so "good behavior" is idiomatic where "good behaviors" sounds off. The spelling without u is the American one.
behaviors is a form of behavior
behavior, noun: The way a person or other living creature acts, especially toward others or measured against accepted standards of conduct. Full entry
- Forms
- behaviorbehaviors plural
- Spelling
- behavior → behaviors: add -s
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