Meaning of Domesticity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Life at home; homelife.
   countable, uncountable
2. Domestic chores; housework.
   countable, in-plural, uncountable
3. Affection for the home and its material comforts.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The Neolithic of 8000 to 6000 B.C. is in the sign⟳ of Cancer, a feminine sign⟳ associated with domesticity, retentiveness, and sentiment.”

“Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help⟳ her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors.”

“As we have⟳ seen, Browning renovates her life-after-divorce by framing her domesticity in increasingly autoerotic terms. With her sensuous boudoir, lust for furniture, love⟳ affair with houses, and espousal of baked goods, hers is an appetitive domesticity geared to self-pleasure.”

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