oversitting
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Noun[edit]
oversitting (uncountable)
- 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.