behaviour Definition

behaviour
behavior
noun

1. Way of behaving; manners.

Example: good behaviour
Thesaurus: conduct, deportment, comportment, demeanour, mien, carriage, decorum, manners, propriety.
2. psychol.
A response to a stimulus.

Idiom: be on one's best behaviour

To behave as well as one possibly can.

Derivative: behavioural
adj

Derivative: behaviourally
adverb

Etymology: 15c.