domesticity
noun
do·mes·tic·i·ty
ˌdō-ˌme-ˈsti-sə-tē 
-mə-;
ˌdä-
plural domesticities
1
: the quality or state of being domestic or domesticated
2
: domestic activities or life
3
domesticities plural
: domestic affairs
Examples of domesticity in a Sentence
We got married and settled into a life of comfortable domesticity.
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As divorce rates rose in the 1970s and 1980s, set off by the same shifting social mores that fueled Women’s Lib, Hollywood reacted in kind, trading simpering visions of American domesticity for lively portraits of familial distress.
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Marley Marius, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2025
The opening track — as yet unannounced — is built around a skittish drum beat and soft guitars, and sees Carner, a father of two, singing amid the hum of domesticity.
—Thomas Smith, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2025
This exuberant début poetry collection recasts the titular heroine as an Appalachian housewife reckoning with the tyrannies of beauty, domesticity, and small-town gossip during the late twentieth century.
—The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
The plot involves mimicry, the nature of reality, avian metaphors, freedom, the mundane horrors of domesticity, and an alien species seeking someone to raise their offspring to imitate human beings.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 17 Mar. 2025
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Marley Marius, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2025
The opening track — as yet unannounced — is built around a skittish drum beat and soft guitars, and sees Carner, a father of two, singing amid the hum of domesticity.
—Thomas Smith, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2025
This exuberant début poetry collection recasts the titular heroine as an Appalachian housewife reckoning with the tyrannies of beauty, domesticity, and small-town gossip during the late twentieth century.
—The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
The plot involves mimicry, the nature of reality, avian metaphors, freedom, the mundane horrors of domesticity, and an alien species seeking someone to raise their offspring to imitate human beings.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 17 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for domesticity
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“Domesticity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/domesticity. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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domesticity
noun
do·mes·tic·i·ty
ˌdō-ˌmes-ˈtis-ət-ē
-məs-,
də-
: the quality or state of being domestic or domesticated
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