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domesticity Definition

do·mes·tic·ity (dō′mes tisə tē)

noun

  1. home life; family life
  2. devotion to home and family life
  3. 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.