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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For the most part, Ruth carries out her daily chores, and submits to the Brotherhood’s inflexible vision of domesticity.
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Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
In Don’t Worry Darling (2022), marking her first major film role, the 29-year-old played a small but noticeable part as Violet, one of multiple women unaware that their husbands placed them in a simulated prison of 1950s suburban domesticity.
—EW.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Sultan returned for several years to photograph the homes rented out to adult film companies – settings which could arouse the fantasies of everyday life, as well as studio sets that hastily replicated scenes of American domesticity.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2025
The horse often has more agency than the humans around him, and the rivalry between Ed and Carol, Wilbur’s wife, serves as a comedic, if warped, commentary on the psychic tensions of postwar domesticity.
—Chris Reed, Oc Register, 30 July 2025
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Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
In Don’t Worry Darling (2022), marking her first major film role, the 29-year-old played a small but noticeable part as Violet, one of multiple women unaware that their husbands placed them in a simulated prison of 1950s suburban domesticity.
—EW.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Sultan returned for several years to photograph the homes rented out to adult film companies – settings which could arouse the fantasies of everyday life, as well as studio sets that hastily replicated scenes of American domesticity.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2025
The horse often has more agency than the humans around him, and the rivalry between Ed and Carol, Wilbur’s wife, serves as a comedic, if warped, commentary on the psychic tensions of postwar domesticity.
—Chris Reed, Oc Register, 30 July 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 11 Sep. 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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