Domesticity

/dəmɪstˈɪsɪti/

/ˌdoʊˌmɛsˈtɪsəti/

[noun]

Domesticity

[NOUN]

the state or quality of being focused on home life, family, and the activities associated with maintaining a household

the quality of being domestic or domesticated

Examples

1. The lack of domesticity, the pitiless illumination and anonymous furniture offer an alternative to ordinary sentimentality and good taste.

2. She preferred a life of promiscuity and alcohol abuse to maternal domesticity.

3. They taught about the importance of maternity and domesticity.

4. She enjoys the pleasures of domesticity but the thought that she could have been more gnaws quietly at her soul like a rat working its way through a hunk of cheese.

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