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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Anna Funder, Time, 6 May 2025
The domesticity that Bix and Cass get to experience here is a cruelly poor imitation.
—Jesse Hassenger, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
The two relay how their mother’s desire to project blissful domesticity had strained the family well before news of her abuses turned the internet against her.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2025
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.
—Marley Marius, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2025
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“Domesticity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/domesticity. Accessed 6 Jun. 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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