domesticity
Example Sentences
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How much of her life does she dedicate to domesticity, now that she’s reunited with her ex, Miles?
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
What it says about America: Wartime nostalgia and postwar domesticity codified the modern American holiday season.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026
“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
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
Institutional dourness and cheerful domesticity coexist on the fourth floor of the Finney County Courthouse.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
