where many habits dispose us to act automatically in mechanical and rigid ways,
habitus dispose us to act in a certain characteristic way (say, prudently) but to do so intentionally (as opposed to automatically), thoughtfully (as opposed to instinctively), self - critically (as opposed to mechanically), and inventively (as opposed to rigidly) in light of the actual circumstances of the action.
Each particular configuration of appetite has a temporal impetus: It is an element in a
habitus, a mode of being in the world, that
disposes people to move along its track.