sedentary

Etymology

From Middle French sédentaire, from Latin sedentārius (“sitting”), from sedeō (“I sit, I am seated”).

adj

1. Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
   The oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.
2. (anthropology, of a human population) Living in a fixed geographical location; the opposite of nomadic.
3. (medicine, of a job, lifestyle, etc.) Not moving much; sitting around.
   […]the Egyptians; whose Sages were not sedentary, scholastic Sophists, like the Grecian[…] 1765 [1738], Bishop William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated, page 220
   […]that any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect, that the body as well as the mind should be cultivated[…] October 3, 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, The Acquirement of Knowledge, An address delivered to the members of the Manchester Athenæum
4. (obsolete) inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil
   The Soul, considered abstractedly from its Passions, is of a remiss and sedentary Nature, slow in its Resolves, and languishing in its Executions. December 22, 1711, Joseph Addison, “No. 255”, in The Spectator
5. (obsolete) Caused by long sitting.

noun

1. 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. 1998, Effect of acute exercise on skin potential in sedentaries and trained athletes.
   The non-sedentaries rather do not without grain or rice, but the sedentaries have, in Wirth's table, not much less sheep and goats than the non-sedentaries. That is a reason to suppose that the sedentaries can cope without the non-sedentaries 2001, Jaarbericht, Issues 35-38, page 99
   With the decline and eventual downfall of the south, it was their relationship with the Arab sedentaries of the north which assumed greater importance; 2005, The Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 1, Volume 2, page 19
   Smiths are not nomadic among the nomads and sedentary among the sedentaries, nor half-nomadic among the nomads, half-sedentary among sedentaries. 2012, Deleuze, The Dark Precursor: Dialectic, Structure, Being, page 37
   "These baths are great both for active people like sportsmen, as well as for sedentaries who spend too much time behind their desks," explains Dicioni Lino 2015, Road to Beauty Day 8: Hairstyling Tips on the Road