sitzfleisch means the ability to endure or carry on with an activity. It carries an Arena rating of 1512, earned across 10 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, sitzfleisch ranks #135 of 17,150 for Funniest Words, #774 of 17,128 for Most Whimsical Words, #2,580 of 17,093 for Most Storied Words, #3,316 of 17,122 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound.
sitzfleisch is pronounced /ˈzɪtsflaɪʃ/.
Why “sitzfleisch” is a great word
The capacity to persist in a task through patient, sedentary application, literally the ‘sitting flesh’ of the buttocks. From German Sitzfleisch, literally 'sitting flesh' or 'sitting meat', from sitzen ('to sit') + Fleisch ('flesh, meat'). Unlike “perseverance,” which emphasizes steadfastness of purpose against difficulty, or “restlessness,” which is a flight from stillness, sitzfleisch is the quiet, physical currency of focus. It is the scholar’s wooden chair groaning into the small hours, the weaver’s bench receiving the weight of a thousand repetitions, the dull ache in the bones that measures progress not in epiphanies but in accumulated inches—the humble, mortal engine of all protracted creation.
noun
- The ability to endure or carry on with an activity.
- A person's bottom; the posterior.
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