domesticity
domesticity
Definition
do·mes·tic·ity (dō′mes tis′ə tē)
noun
- home life; family life
- devotion to home and family life
- pl. domesticities -·ties household affairs
domesticity
Usage Examples
Possessives
- woman: This challenges the dominant images of women's domesticity.
Converse of object
- include: Topics include domesticity, sexuality, paid work, citizenship and politics, imperialism and war.
Adjective modifier
- cozy: To be fair, they also spread cozy domesticity through the monastery.
- quiet: But what's astonishing is still the quiet domesticity of the story and its telling.
- imperial: Her early research focused on the gendered spatiality of imperial travel and travel writing by women, and imperial domesticity in British India.
- bourgeois: The study of Paris that follows traces the developments of the architectural forms of Absolutism and of bourgeois domesticity between 1600 and 1800.
- dull: If life really were a choice between dull domesticity and such inane thrill-seeking, it would be depressing indeed.
- new: They have just brought a house together and took Cliffe home from Wellcat to share in their new domesticity.
Browse dictionary entries near domesticity
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