sedentariness

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English sedentary

Proto-Germanic *-in-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-inōną

Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-

Proto-Germanic *-atjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *-assuz

Proto-Germanic *-inassuz

Proto-West Germanic *-nassī

Old English -nes

Middle English -nesse

English -ness

English sedentariness

From sedentary + -ness.

Noun

sedentariness (uncountable)

1. The property of being sedentary.
   1. (of a person) The habit of spending most of one's time physically at rest, sitting or lying down, etc. (Includes circumstances of being mentally busy but not physically busy).

      Antonyms: activeness, activity, hustle, busyness, exercise

      Coordinate terms: sloth, laziness

      Near-synonym: sedentarism (usually synonymous)

      • 2023 April 5, Mark Hay, “Does Testosterone Affect Your Politics?”, in VICE‎^[1]:

        But the ongoing dip they describe is far more modest than people fearmongering about a T crisis make it out to be, and likely due to lifestyle factors like sedentariness and environmental pollutants messing with our bodies.

   2. (of nonhuman creatures) The state of being mostly or entirely motionless, stationary.

      Coordinate terms: motionlessness, stationariness, stillness

Translations

sedentarism — see also sedentarism

• Spanish: sedentariedad f