DOMESTICITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does domesticity mean? 

• DOMESTICITY (noun)
  The noun DOMESTICITY has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being domestic or domesticated

2. domestic activities or life

  Familiarity information: DOMESTICITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOMESTICITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being domestic or domesticated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

a royal family living in unpretentious domesticity

Hypernyms ("domesticity" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

domestic (of or involving the home or family)

undomestic (not domestic or related to home)

Derivation:

domestic (converted or adapted to domestic use)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Domestic activities or life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

making a hobby of domesticity

Hypernyms ("domesticity" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Derivation:

domestic (of or relating to the home)

 Context examples 

As we are quite confidential here, Mr. Copperfield, said Mrs. Micawber, sipping her punch, Mr. Traddles being a part of our domesticity, I should much like to have your opinion on Mr. Micawber's prospects.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)