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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He’s the un-Rembrandt, a poet of intimate domesticity whose nine paintings here are less than 2 feet per side.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026
For a heartbeat, you can almost imagine an alternate ending: two lonely figures passing the winter in gentle domesticity, breaking bread, tending the fire, building a language out of generosity.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2025
Initially, he was thinking of this body of work in terms of domesticity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 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
But mostly she busied herself with little domesticities that somehow never included cooking, and with driving helter-skelter over the range with two horses hitched to a buckboard, following Tom when he rode after cattle.
From Rim o' the World by Anton Otto Fischer
Why could we not have had more such, instead of such indifferent domesticities as La Mignonne?
From The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
This difference in the state of their respective domesticities by no means operated to disturb their harmony; though, doubtless, his lordship was rather in the greatest hurry to be gone.
From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 by James Harrison
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