Domesticity is the state of being at home with your family.
...a small rebellion against routine and cosy domesticity.
Synonyms: home life, housekeeping, domestication, homemaking More Synonyms of domesticity
domesticity in British English
(ˌdəʊmɛˈstɪsɪtɪ)
nounWord forms: plural-ties
1.
home life
2.
devotion to or familiarity with home life
3. (usually plural)
a domestic duty, matter, or condition
domesticity in American English
(ˌdoʊmɛsˈtɪsəti)
noun
1.
home life; family life
2.
devotion to home and family life
3. Word forms: pluralˌdomesˈticities [pl.]
household affairs
Examples of 'domesticity' in a sentence
domesticity
Instead they are forced into a life of domesticity.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The next day it was back to family domesticity.
Claudia Hammond EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings (2005)
Where another normal week of work, social life and domesticity will begin.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The couple married in 1964 and a life of blissful domesticity beckoned.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
I suspect that their attitudes to domesticity were less cosy and complacent than ours.
Francis Pryor BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans (2003)
He is the stay-at-home father who puts his career on hold and devotes himself to a life of simple domesticity while his wife runs the country.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
She said: 'I felt very safe in my little bubble of motherhood and domesticity.
The Sun (2013)
Love, the biggest culprit, raises the spectre of bourgeois domesticity as often as it holds the promise of freedom.
The Times Literary Supplement (2013)
It's a story shaped by a desire for domesticity, a love of excess and an appalling taste in home furnishings.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
To her, a return to the herded domesticity of life in Ireland represented little morethan a sentence to a slow death.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Having fulfilled their career objectives, there are no longer any challenges to be met, and motherhood and domesticity may appear to provide a welcome alternative.
Miller, Maureen Double Income No Kids Yet? (1989)
(noun)
Definition
devotion to home life
routine and cosy domesticity
Synonyms
home life
housekeeping
I thought that cooking and housekeeping were unimportant tasks.
domestication
homemaking
housewifery
home-lovingness
Additional synonyms
in the sense of housekeeping
Definition
the running of a household
I thought that cooking and housekeeping were unimportant tasks.