oversitting

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.