domesticity
Americannoun
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domesticities
plural
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the state of being domestic; domestic or home life.
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a domestic or household act, activity, duty, or chore.
noun
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home life
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devotion to or familiarity with home life
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(usually plural) a domestic duty, matter, or condition
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Origin of domesticity
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The dream even hinted at a life beyond domesticity — perhaps even freedom to “actually have a profession,” Kaplan added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Ms. Latifi, a journalist who has written extensively on the subject, describes the world as a fun-house version of domesticity, where family life resembles a business arrangement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
In her columns for “Smart Housekeeping,” Elizabeth presides over an idyll of New England domesticity.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025
“Wi$h Li$t,” a wistful song that hits like a contented sigh, imagines a simple life of domesticity in a suburban house with a basketball hoop, children and peace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
So how had she gotten mired in the same pit of domesticity as her parents?
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
Another gallery, on the second floor of the old mansion, is devoted to small domesticities, including photographs of families by Bruce Davidson and intimate scenes of ordinary life by Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2021
Those domesticities went down like a row of dominoes at the first breath of female revolt.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019
"These domesticities should be kept out of sight, don't you think?"
From The Marriage of William Ashe by Mrs. Humphry Ward
To return to Shelley from the turmoil of our gross excitements and cramped domesticities is to bathe our foreheads in the "dew of the morning" and cool our hands in the ultimate Sea.
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys
Was he not soaring far above theologies and domesticities, over continents traversed only by memory, amid ideals seen only with the eye of hope?
From Lancashire Idylls (1898) by Marshall Mather
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