Domesticity

noun

noun ·5 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Life at home; homelife. countable, uncountable

    "The Neolithic of 8000 to 6000 B.C. is in the sign of Cancer, a feminine sign associated with domesticity, retentiveness, and sentiment."

  2. 2
    domestic activities or life wordnet
  3. 3
    Domestic chores; housework. countable, in-plural, uncountable

    "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."

  4. 4
    the quality of being domestic or domesticated wordnet
  5. 5
    Affection for the home and its material comforts. countable, uncountable

    "As we have seen, Browning renovates her life-after-divorce by framing her domesticity in increasingly autoerotic terms. With her sensuous boudoir, lust for furniture, love affair with houses, and espousal of baked goods, hers is an appetitive domesticity geared to self-pleasure."

Synonyms

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comfortcomfortfamilymaterialism

Example

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"Blogs about domesticity can be really appealing to parents who stay home to raise their children."

Etymology

From domestic + -ity.

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