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domesticity

[doh-me-stis-i-tee] / ˌdoʊ mɛˈstɪs ɪ ti /
NOUN
home life
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Domesticity takes many guises in Daniel Wickerham and Malcolm Lomax’s towering assemblages, which rely heavily on photographic images but also include 3-D objects.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2020

Domesticity is a reflex, drawing upon childhood lessons, old memories and popular culture, and not everyone has those frames of reference.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2019

Domesticity and intimate life are central to Woodberry’s vision of selfhood—a bath, a shave, a haircut; Andais’s confidential kitchen-table chat with her older daughter about boys and her own thwarted dreams.

From The New Yorker • May 17, 2017

“The more I got into it, the more I realized that the way I was raised was the key,” says Hayes, who published the book “Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture” in 2010.

From US News • Nov. 5, 2014

Domesticity; babies; servants; the companionship of one man.

From Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract by Macaulay, Rose, Dame



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