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The art of feeling rich without spending a dollar more on square footage.

means The quality of a space feeling open and uncrowded, with more room than you actually need for the stuff and people in it.

from Built simply from 'room' — tracing back to Old English 'rum,' meaning space or open area, related to the German 'Raum' — plus the suffix '-y' and then '-ness' to turn the adjective 'roomy' into an abstract noun. No hidden plot twist here: it's a straightforward 19th-century-style formation, English quietly doing its most English thing, bolting endings onto a word until the feeling gets its own noun.

real estate term
Measures perceived space, not actual square footage
psychology trick
High ceilings fake roominess better than wide floors
car ads love it
Code word for not quite a minivan
opposite
Coziness, when marketers admit the place is small
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