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oversitting

oversitting noun: excessive sitting; too much time spent in a seated position.

Noun

oversitting (uncountable)

  1. Excessive sitting; too much time spent in a seated position.
    • […] the indigents whose universal complaint seemed to be boils resulting from malnutrition and oversitting.1955, Lenard Kaufman, An Apple a Day, page 52
    • 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.1964, Frank Smith, Brothers' keepers, page 112

Origin of oversitting

From over- + sitting.

Questions about oversitting

What does oversitting mean?
Oversitting means excessive sitting; too much time spent in a seated position.
What part of speech is oversitting?
Oversitting is a noun.

Words near oversitting in the dictionary

  1. oversings
  2. oversit
  3. oversite
  4. oversites
  5. oversits
  6. oversitting
  7. oversize
  8. oversized
  9. oversizedness
  10. oversizes
  11. oversizing

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