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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare, dated) 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 "accelerator toe."
Some believed that a homemaker's worse nightmare in the 1920s was homotosis—the unenviable “disease” caused by the lack of nice furniture […]
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Homotosis means (rare, dated) A lack of attractive home furnishings, regarded as a disorder..
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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 "accelerator toe."
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