homebody
Americannoun
plural
homebodiesnoun
Usage
What is a homebody? A homebody is a person who enjoys being at home and doing activities that center around the home.If your ideal day includes staying home and working on home improvement projects, indulging in hobbies, or reading and playing video games, you might call yourself a homebody. While homebodies go out with friends and travel, their preference is staying at home, often alone or with close family. That preference is important.Sometimes homebody is applied to people with a mental illness, like agoraphobia, or a physical disability that keeps them at home, but that would be inaccurate. A homebody prefers to stay at home. If a disability keeps someone at home most of the time when they’d rather be traveling the world, for example, they are not a homebody. Equally, if someone is always away from home because they have to be but they want to be home, they still might call themselves a homebody.Example: Marvin was a real homebody, preferring to spend his days cooking in his kitchen for his family and friends.
Etymology
Origin of homebody
Example Sentences
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“These days, Mack seems totally happy being the homebody dad hanging with his kids, 3-year-old Dakota and 2-year-old Carson,” the Cosmopolitan writer noted.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026
I’m such a homebody, so I typically work out at home.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026
Anderson described him as a "homebody" who "liked to gig around the home counties".
From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025
Banks was a homebody “who rarely went out,” said Cassandra Anderson, 47, a family friend who set up an online funeral fundraising campaign.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2024
You could glance at Gus and never know he’d been sick, but I carried my disease with me on the outside, which is part of why I’d become a homebody in the first place.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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