Oversitting

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Excessive sitting; too much time spent in a seated position. uncountable

    "[…] the indigents whose universal complaint seemed to be boils resulting from malnutrition and oversitting."

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preside

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"[…] the indigents whose universal complaint seemed to be boils resulting from malnutrition and oversitting."

Etymology

From over- + sitting.

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