Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The quality or condition of being domestic.
- n. Home life or devotion to it.
- n. Household affairs.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being domestic.
- n. A domestic affair, act, or habit.
Wiktionary
- n. affection for the home and its material comforts
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.
WordNet 3.0
- n. domestic activities or life
- n. the quality of being domestic or domesticated
Etymologies
- domestic + -ity (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As I commented on your review post - his genuine-sounding words about how great domesticity is really jumped out at me.”
“But the roof of their domesticity is shaking, ready to be blown away along with other houses in their neighborhood.”
“To get an idea of the Dutch achievement in domesticity, I cite Rybczynski on the urban medieval home: "The typical bourgeois townhouse of the 14th century combined living and work.”
“Later, following my adventures in domesticity, I drove out to Redmond to meet gaaneden for afternoon tea.”
“His sister, Mary, is trapped in domesticity, caring for her ailing, dotty father and her maddening mother.”
The Lambs of London: Summary and book reviews of The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd.
“If they are content to have England turned into a beehive and an ant-hill, decorated here and there with a few faded butterflies playing at an old game called domesticity in the intervals of the divorce court, then let them have their empire of insects; they will find plenty of Socialists who will give it to them.”
“3 January, 2009 in domesticity, momma-ing, real life | Tags: ranty mcrant rant”
“28 December, 2009 in domesticity, now with pictures, real life | Tags: babywearing, ps my boyfriend is awesome, vacation”
“12In the Cedarberg, we can measure colonial conquest by the proliferation of tenable settler land claims, which were made household by household; increasing signs of European-inflected domesticity is tangible evidence of their success.”
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
“9 September, 2008 in domesticity, food and recipes, real life”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘domesticity’.
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Siamese-Twin Words
Idea from Will Shortz's NPR puzzle feature. Two words that share a common letter (end of first word and start of second word) and forming a larger word, e.g., mill and lion = mil-l-ion. Variants ...
cordial, portable, trillion, retort, preposition, palace, domesticity, passage, shallow, electorate, bootstrap, turkey and 9 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Wharton, Edith. Age of Innocence. 1920
A list of difficult words for L2-12 learners.
Faust, erection, metropolitan, splendor, shabby, conservatives, cherished, inconvenient, clung, acoustics, coupe, scramble and 261 more...
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thricedotted's Words
schadenfreude, vanquish, calumny, obsequious, rhapsody, expostulate, promontory, bordello, quintessence, catharsis, recapitulation, myriad and 937 more...
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simple & useful13
rookeries, bottommost, nettlesome, extravaganza, galoot, gun moll, kludge, pollyannaish, bushwhacking, revivable, flourishing, resurgence and 97 more...
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SockFullOfPennies's Words
spaghettification, simultaneity, instantaneity, prestidigitation, recalcitrant, retronym, uncouple, decouple, ept, evanescent, prodigious, fratricide and 61 more...
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