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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A human activity characterized by compulsive fascination with and performance of repetitive, mechanical tasks, such as assembling and disassembling, collecting, or sorting household objects..
Punding may consist of activities such as collecting pebbles and lining them up as perfectly as possible, or disassembling doorknobs and putting them back together again.
What Pollan is describing here is a mild form of ‘punding’, a phenomenon first described by intravenous amphetamine addicts.
Use punding when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Punding means A human activity characterized by compulsive fascination with and performance of repetitive, mechanical tasks, such as assembling and disassembling, collecting, or sorting household objects..
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Punding may consist of activities such as collecting pebbles and lining them up as perfectly as possible, or disassembling doorknobs and putting them back together again.
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