domesticity

American  

[doh-me-stis-i-tee] / ˌdoʊ mɛˈstɪs ɪ ti /

noun

• domesticities
  plural

1. the state of being domestic; domestic or home life.

2. a domestic or household act, activity, duty, or chore.

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domesticity British  

/ ˌdəʊmɛˈstɪsɪtɪ /

noun

1. home life

2. devotion to or familiarity with home life

3. (usually plural) a domestic duty, matter, or condition

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• domesticities
  plural

Etymology

Origin of domesticity

First recorded in 1715–25; domestic + -ity

Example Sentences

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domesticity domesticities

Television and the sales pitch of domesticity have always been closely aligned.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

Kicking over the traces of domesticity, Aurore left her family for the capital in 1831 and quickly immersed herself in Paris’s bustling literary scene.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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

Alternating between angry and exhausted, she bristles at acclimating to the domesticity that her prickly neighbor wives treat like a club handshake.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025

Such domesticity among men was unknown to the girls, and Fiona said she would marry no man who had not served in the Royal Navy.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

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

Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors.

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

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