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Definition of Domesticity
1. Noun. The quality of being domestic or domesticated. "A royal family living in unpretentious domesticity"
2. Noun. Domestic activities or life. "Making a hobby of domesticity"
Definition of Domesticity
1. n. The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.
Definition of Domesticity
1. Noun. affection for the home and its material comforts ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Domesticity
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Domesticity
Literary usage of Domesticity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1912)
"domesticity OF THE YELLOW.FEVER MOSQUITO. ... in 1896, noted the domesticity and
diurnal habits of this mosquito, and that it does not bite at night. ..."
2. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1875)
"... Women-frights The domesticity other life follows from the principle of
Separation <i( Powers. to that time feminine influence over Man has been ..."
3. The Literary Character: Or, The History of Men of Genius, Drawn from Their by Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (1881)
"domesticity; OR, A DISSERTATION ON SERVANTS. THB characteristics of servants have
been usually known by the broad caricatures of the satirists of every age, ..."
4. Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the by Charles Lyell, Gérard Paul Deshayes (1832)
"... after which they remain stationary—The animals now subject to man had originally
an aptitude to domesticity—Acquired peculiarities which become ..."
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