sedentism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.03 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Where sedentism does occur amongst hunters and gatherers it seems generally to be related to a number of recurrent features."
- "The implicit correlations between mobility, sedentism, complexity, and progressive evolutionary change are so interwoven and all pervasive as to be all but impossible to disentangle in adaptationist theory."
- "Assuming sedentism made children less costly, as is often said to be true, our theory predicts a shift toward increased fertility, increased child mortality, decreased food per capita, and increased regional population."
Etymology
From Latin sedēns + -ism.