domesticity

[ doh-me-stis-i-tee ]

noun

, plural do·mes·tic·i·ties.

1. the state of being domestic; domestic or home life.
2. a domestic or household act, activity, duty, or chore.

domesticity

/ ˌdəʊmɛˈstɪsɪtɪ /

noun

1. home life
2. devotion to or familiarity with home life
3. usually plural a domestic duty, matter, or condition

Word History and Origins

Origin of domesticity¹

First recorded in 1715–25; domestic + -ity

Example Sentences

He was so deeply acclimated—institutionalized—to a decrepit domesticity, to something most people would call uninhabitable, that it seemed likely he’d be more physically and psychologically comfortable in our basement than in our house.

From Time

Disney is full of these figures, women who’ve essentially prioritized their careers and personal ambitions over family and domesticity.

From Vox

Instead, they’re always nested in warm, nurturing domesticity.

From Vox

If SoHo was an act of repurposing the city’s industrial history, the Upper West Side offered a return to upper-middle-class domesticity with a diversity not found on the East Side.

From Freakonomics

Many people have started asking how being locked in the spaces of domesticity might have impacted women, who often face abuse within those spaces.

From Quartz

Normality, domesticity, ease, in the blazing Arizona desert.

From The Daily Beast

Both Brienne and Arya are found wanting in the traditional, essential feminine arts: domesticity and beauty.

From The Daily Beast

He points to scenes in the film that capture their domesticity in homes Dickens set up for Nelly and visited.

From The Daily Beast

Is it “health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues?”

From The Daily Beast

In their show notes, McCullough and Hernandez said the collection was about “understated domesticity,” whatever that means.

From The Daily Beast

But this he hardly realized—so rapidly was the discipline of domesticity bringing his haughty spirit to terms!

From Project Gutenberg

He might not sleep alone; that supreme symbol of domesticity Corydon could not give up, and he soon ceased to ask for it.

From Project Gutenberg

It was always kept chained, for, notwithstanding its long domesticity, it was neither civilized nor attached to its keepers.

From Project Gutenberg

He gave up excessive drinking; became a constant smoker, and lent full rein to his natural domesticity.

From Project Gutenberg

But here were two American women and a little girl—surely evidences of domesticity.

From Project Gutenberg