LekhoriLekhoriNot moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
The oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.
Living in a fixed geographical location; the opposite of nomadic.
Not moving much; sitting around.
[…]the Egyptians; whose Sages were not sedentary, scholastic Sophists, like the Grecian[…]
a sedentary person
Endosomatic electrodermal activity (skin potential level and skin potential response) as an indirect indicator of sympathetic nervous system activity was measured in 35 sedentary male students and 22 trained athletes of two groups during resting and after an acute exercise. The aim of this study was to investigate the difference of skin potential parameters between sedentaries and trained athletes before and after the acute exercise in bicycle ergometer.
From Middle French sédentaire, from Latin sedentārius (“sitting”), from sedeō (“I sit, I am seated”).
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