domesticity

[doh-me-stis-i-tee] / ˌdoʊ mɛˈstɪs ɪ ti /

NOUN

home life

Synonyms

STRONG

domestication

WEAK

family life staying at home

Example Sentences

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An exquisitely observed scene depicts a full weekend Suzanna is allowed to spend with her mother in a prison trailer, a simulacrum of domesticity.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

What it says about America: Wartime nostalgia and postwar domesticity codified the modern American holiday season.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026

For a heartbeat, you can almost imagine an alternate ending: two lonely figures passing the winter in gentle domesticity, breaking bread, tending the fire, building a language out of generosity.

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2025

Even the category of tradwife, a label for adherents of a movement promoting traditional gender roles and female domesticity, contains multitudes.

From Slate • Dec. 14, 2024

Institutional dourness and cheerful domesticity coexist on the fourth floor of the Finney County Courthouse.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote