What is another word for domesticity?

Pronunciation: [dəmɪstˈɪsɪti] (IPA)

Domesticity is a term used to describe the routines and habits associated with living in a home and caring for a household. There are several synonyms that can be used to describe domesticity, including homeliness, domestic bliss, and family life. Other similar words include household management, housekeeping, and domestic duties. These words all connote a sense of comfort and security that can be found in the daily activities of looking after a home and a family. Domesticity is an important part of many people's lives, providing a sense of stability and routine that can be comforting in a busy and chaotic world.

What are the hypernyms for Domesticity?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Domesticity?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

Usage examples for Domesticity

I was offered terms as well-generous, oh, yes, very generous; but it was not that that impressed me-it was their kindness-their admitting me into their domesticity-I have found the mother as kind to me as to her own daughters.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
And perhaps it was to escape from this little embarrassment that she proceeded to say: "Oh, they are so kind, the Glasgow people; I have never seen such domesticity."
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
He boldly decided to slay the illusion of domesticity.
"Brand Blotters"
William MacLeod Raine

Famous quotes with Domesticity

  • The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression.
    Tracy Kidder
  • Health makes good propaganda. “'Proof' that women's activities outside the home are detrimental to the health and welfare of themselves, their families and the country as a whole” lent impetus, writes Ann Oakley, to the nineteenth-century cult of domesticity. The ovaries were seen as collective property rather than the woman's own business, as the face and body outline are seen today. Who can argue with health?
    Naomi Wolf
  • “Into thirty centuries born,” Edwin Muir began his most celebrated poem, “At home in them all but the very last.” Much is said about escapism in narrative and fiction. But perhaps the greatest escapism of all is to take refuge in the domesticity of the past, the home that history and literature become, avoiding the one moment of time in which we are not at home, yet have to live: the present.
    Tim Parks
  • I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east.
    Quentin Crisp
  • And here one may note a curious comparison which can be made between this [ascidian] life-history and that of many a respectable pinnacle and gargoyle on the social fabric. Every respectable citizen of the professional classes passes through a period of activity and imagination, of "liveliness and eccentricity," of "Sturm und Drang." He shocks his aunts. Presently, however, he realizes the sober aspect of things. He becomes dull; he enters a profession; suckers appear on his head; and he studies. Finally, by virtue of these he settles down—he marries. All his wild ambitions and subtle æsthetic perceptions atrophy as needless in the presence of calm domesticity. He secretes a house, or "establishment," round himself, of inorganic and servile material. His Bohemian tail is discarded. Henceforth his life is a passive receptivity to what chance and the drift of his profession bring along; he lives an almost entirely vegetative excrescence on the side of a street, and in the tranquillity of his calling finds that colourless contentment that replaces happiness.
    H. G. Wells

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