bromidrosis

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noun

Fetid or foul-smelling perspiration.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounbromidrosis (uncountable)

alternative bromhidrosis

  1. uncountablemedicineFetid or foul-smelling perspiration.
    1 more example

    Thus I had under treatment a patient who otherwise did not show the least traces of bromhidrosis, but whenever he began to perspire more freely, as after eating and drinking heartily or by active exercise, so offensive an exhalation spread around him that he was forced to shun all social intercourse.

    1885, Hugo Ziemssen, editor, Handbook of Diseases of the Skin, page 506

    Synonyms: body odour, osmidrosis

Synonyms & antonyms

nounFetid or foul-smelling perspiration.

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Origin

From Ancient Greek βρῶμος (brômos, “foul-smelling”) + ῑ̔δρώς (hīdrṓs, “sweat”) + -ωσῐς (-ōsĭs, “condition”), a Neo-Classical compound meaning the condition of foul-smelling sweating.

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bromidrosis,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bromidrosis.

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