domesticities

Noun

domesticity (countable and uncountable, plural domesticities)

1. Life at home; homelife.
   • The Neolithic of 8000 to 6000 B.C. is in the sign of Cancer, a feminine sign associated with domesticity, retentiveness, and sentiment.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 131
2. (in plural) Domestic chores; housework.
   • 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.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 29
3. Affection for the home and its comforts.
   • Duncan's lovelife may be divided between an earlier period of promiscuity and a later period of domesticity.1988 February 21, Charley Shively, “Not Afraid To Be A Queen”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 31, page 3