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domesticity

nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,127 of 15,258leans written

Domesticity is home life and the running of a household. Quiet domesticity, the pleasures of domesticity, settle into domesticity.

It is warm in some mouths and stifling in others, and which it is has been the subject of a century of argument about women's lives. It names the whole texture of a household rather than any one chore.

Definitions of domesticity

  1. 1noundomesticityHome life and the running of a household.C2

    “She loved the quiet domesticity of cooking dinner and reading by the fire.”

domesticity is a life.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *dem-

  2. Latin

    domesticus

  3. Middle French

    domestique

  4. English

    domestic

  5. English, today

    domesticity

Built from

  • domus · Latin — house, home

From domestic + -ity. domestic comes from Middle French domestique, from Latin domesticus, from domus (“house, home”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

domesticity in the wild

  • The play contrasts bourgeois domesticity with sexual yearning.

    The Lover (play)

  • Retiring as a detective, he marries and settles in a Spanish castle, raises a large family and lives in a blissful state of domesticity.

    Flambeau (character)

  • The album's first track, "Primrose Hill", about the simple joys of domesticity, was written and sung by Beverley Martyn and featured Ray Warleigh on saxophone.

    The Road to Ruin (John and Beverley Martyn album)

  • The novel's themes include women's participation in the workforce, domesticity and equality, personal independence, social reform, and mental health.

    Work: A Story of Experience

  • In addition, the story explores themes of domesticity, welfare, and success.

    Happy Endings (short story)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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the domus family

domesticdominion

domesticity — used about once every 12,385 pages · #12,127 · point at the bar for the others

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  • domesticated
  • domestication