oversitting

English

Etymology

over- + sitting

Noun

oversitting (uncountable)

  1. Excessive sitting; too much time spent in a seated position.
    • 1955, Lenard Kaufman, An Apple a Day (page 52)
      [] the indigents whose universal complaint seemed to be boils resulting from malnutrition and oversitting.
    • 1964, Frank Smith, Brothers' keepers (page 112)
      Your legs will be long and strong and brown, without the horrible adult deformity of strangled toes or fat-rolled thighs. Your buttocks will be flat and taut, living with muscle and blood, not misshapen by poor eating and oversitting.
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