domesticity

“Home music-making was at the core of Victorian domesticity, and a woman—wife, mother, daughter—considered the ‘angel in the home,’ would have been sitting at the genteel parlor piano playing this tune,” says Fink.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

In her columns for “Smart Housekeeping,” Elizabeth presides over an idyll of New England domesticity.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025

For a heartbeat, you can almost imagine an alternate ending: two lonely figures passing the winter in gentle domesticity, breaking bread, tending the fire, building a language out of generosity.

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2025

Alternating between angry and exhausted, she bristles at acclimating to the domesticity that her prickly neighbor wives treat like a club handshake.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025

Institutional dourness and cheerful domesticity coexist on the fourth floor of the Finney County Courthouse.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

Another gallery, on the second floor of the old mansion, is devoted to small domesticities, including photographs of families by Bruce Davidson and intimate scenes of ordinary life by Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2021

Those domesticities went down like a row of dominoes at the first breath of female revolt.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019

Why could we not have had more such, instead of such indifferent domesticities as La Mignonne?

From The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

There were little domesticities of intimate life about him, an empty soup-dish, a cruet-stand, a plate and a spoon.

From The Eternal City by Sir Hall Caine

And, at times when his need of distraction became imperious, he declined from Anne's lofty domesticities upon the Hannays.

From The Helpmate by May Sinclair