Domesticity
[,dɒme'stɪsɪtɪ;,dəʊm-] or ['domɛ'stɪsəti]
Definition
(noun.) domestic activities or life; 'making a hobby of domesticity'.
(noun.) the quality of being domestic or domesticated; 'a royal family living in unpretentious domesticity'.
Checker: Thelma--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.
Editor: Rochelle
Examples
- What you call wearisome domesticity, said the Rector in a voice of emotion, is the happiest state in which a man can find himself. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- And the deeper he went in domesticity the more did the sense of acquitting himself and acting with propriety predominate over any other satisfaction. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I don't care about such wearisome domesticity. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Even the fashionable quarters had the air of untidy domesticity to which no excess of heat ever degrades the European cities. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
Checker: Roberta