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domesticity
[ doh-me-stis-i-tee ]
noun
- the state of being domestic; domestic or home life.
- a domestic or household act, activity, duty, or chore.
domesticity
/ ˌdəʊmɛˈstɪsɪtɪ /
noun
- home life
- devotion to or familiarity with home life
- usually plural a domestic duty, matter, or condition
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Word History and Origins
Origin of domesticity1
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Example Sentences
Normality, domesticity, ease, in the blazing Arizona desert.
Both Brienne and Arya are found wanting in the traditional, essential feminine arts: domesticity and beauty.
He points to scenes in the film that capture their domesticity in homes Dickens set up for Nelly and visited.
Is it “health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues?”
In their show notes, McCullough and Hernandez said the collection was about “understated domesticity,” whatever that means.
But this he hardly realized—so rapidly was the discipline of domesticity bringing his haughty spirit to terms!
He might not sleep alone; that supreme symbol of domesticity Corydon could not give up, and he soon ceased to ask for it.
It was always kept chained, for, notwithstanding its long domesticity, it was neither civilized nor attached to its keepers.
He gave up excessive drinking; became a constant smoker, and lent full rein to his natural domesticity.
But here were two American women and a little girl—surely evidences of domesticity.
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