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domesticity

[doh-me-stis-i-tee] / ˌdoʊ mɛˈstɪs ɪ ti /
NOUN
home life
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Television and the sales pitch of domesticity have always been closely aligned.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

How much of her life does she dedicate to domesticity, now that she’s reunited with her ex, Miles?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

In her columns for “Smart Housekeeping,” Elizabeth presides over an idyll of New England domesticity.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025

Initially, he was thinking of this body of work in terms of domesticity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025

All week I’d been getting a speed course in high domesticity.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Another gallery, on the second floor of the old mansion, is devoted to small domesticities, including photographs of families by Bruce Davidson and intimate scenes of ordinary life by Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2021

Those domesticities went down like a row of dominoes at the first breath of female revolt.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019

Was he not soaring far above theologies and domesticities, over continents traversed only by memory, amid ideals seen only with the eye of hope?

From Lancashire Idylls (1898) by Marshall Mather

To return to Shelley from the turmoil of our gross excitements and cramped domesticities is to bathe our foreheads in the "dew of the morning" and cool our hands in the ultimate Sea.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys

Children were dear to him, and he knew their pretty ways; a cynical critic might allege that he exploited overmuch the tender domesticities.

From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse


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