sedentariness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English sedentary 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.
Meanings
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(of a person, uncountable) The property of being sedentary. ▸ 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).
Near-synonym: sedentarism (usually synonymous)
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.
2023 April 5, Mark Hay, “Does Testosterone Affect Your Politics?”, in VICE:
- (of nonhuman creatures, uncountable) The property of being sedentary. ▸ The state of being mostly or entirely motionless, stationary.
Antonyms
activeness · busyness · hustle · exercise · activity
Coordinates
stationariness · stillness · sloth · motionlessness · laziness
Synonyms
Translations (1)
es sedentariedad (sedentarism)