homotosis

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noun

A lack of attractive home furnishings, regarded as a disorder.

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Meanings

nounhomotosis (uncountable)
  1. datedrareuncountableA lack of attractive home furnishings, regarded as a disorder.

    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
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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."

    1992, Jean Folkerts, Media voices: an historical perspective: an anthology, page 285

Origin

From home and -osis.

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homotosis. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/homotosis

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“homotosis.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/homotosis. Accessed November 4, 2026.

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “homotosis,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/homotosis.

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