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homotosis

homotosis noun: a lack of attractive home furnishings, regarded as a disorder.

Noun

homotosis (uncountable)

  1. (dated, rare) A lack of attractive home furnishings, regarded as a disorder.
    • Copywriters soon discovered and labeled over a hundred new diseases, including such transparent imitations as "bromodosis" (sweaty foot odors), "homotosis" (lack of attractive home furnishings), "acidosis" (sour stomach), and such inventive afflictions as "office hips," "ashtray breath," and...1992, Jean Folkerts, Media voices: an historical perspective: an anthology, page 285
    • Some believed that a homemaker's worse nightmare in the 1920s was homotosis—the unenviable “disease” caused by the lack of nice furniture […]2005, Anthony J. Mayo, Nitin Nohria, In Their Time, page 71

Origin of homotosis

From home and -osis.

Questions about homotosis

What does homotosis mean?
Homotosis means a lack of attractive home furnishings, regarded as a disorder.
What part of speech is homotosis?
Homotosis is a noun.

Words near homotosis in the dictionary

  1. homotoping
  2. homotops
  3. homotopy
  4. homotopy theories
  5. homotopy theory
  6. homotosis
  7. homotoxicology
  8. homotoxin
  9. homotoxins
  10. homotransphobia
  11. homotransphobic

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