domesticity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   domestic activities or life

   making a hobby of domesticity

2. 2
   noun

   the quality of being domestic or domesticated

   a royal family living in unpretentious domesticity

3. 3
   noun

   Life at home; homelife.

   The Neolithic of 8000 to 6000 B.C. is in the sign of Cancer, a feminine sign associated with domesticity, retentiveness, and sentiment.

4. 4
   noun

   Domestic chores; housework.

   Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors.

5. 5
   noun

   Affection for the home and its material comforts.

   As we have seen, Browning renovates her life-after-divorce by framing her domesticity in increasingly autoerotic terms. With her sensuous boudoir, lust for furniture, love affair with houses, and espousal of baked goods, hers is an appetitive domesticity geared to self-pleasure.

Etymology

From domestic + -ity.