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domesticity

/doh-me-stis-i-tee/US // ˌdoʊ mɛˈstɪs ɪ ti //UK // (ˌdəʊmɛˈstɪsɪtɪ) //

家庭性,家务,国内,家政

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural do·mes·tic·i·ties.

    • : the state of being domestic; domestic or home life.
    • : a domestic or household act, activity, duty, or chore.

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Examples

  • He was so deeply acclimated—institutionalized—to a decrepit domesticity, to something most people would call uninhabitable, that it seemed likely he’d be more physically and psychologically comfortable in our basement than in our house.

  • Disney is full of these figures, women who’ve essentially prioritized their careers and personal ambitions over family and domesticity.

  • Instead, they’re always nested in warm, nurturing domesticity.

  • If SoHo was an act of repurposing the city’s industrial history, the Upper West Side offered a return to upper-middle-class domesticity with a diversity not found on the East Side.

  • Many people have started asking how being locked in the spaces of domesticity might have impacted women, who often face abuse within those spaces.

  • Normality, domesticity, ease, in the blazing Arizona desert.

  • Both Brienne and Arya are found wanting in the traditional, essential feminine arts: domesticity and beauty.

  • He points to scenes in the film that capture their domesticity in homes Dickens set up for Nelly and visited.

  • Is it “health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues?”

  • In their show notes, McCullough and Hernandez said the collection was about “understated domesticity,” whatever that means.

  • But this he hardly realized—so rapidly was the discipline of domesticity bringing his haughty spirit to terms!

  • He might not sleep alone; that supreme symbol of domesticity Corydon could not give up, and he soon ceased to ask for it.

  • It was always kept chained, for, notwithstanding its long domesticity, it was neither civilized nor attached to its keepers.

  • He gave up excessive drinking; became a constant smoker, and lent full rein to his natural domesticity.

  • But here were two American women and a little girl—surely evidences of domesticity.