domesticity

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Life at home; homelife. countable,uncountable
    — The Neolithic of 8000 to 6000 B.C. is in the sign of Cancer, a feminine sign associated with domesticity, retentiveness, and sentiment.
  2. Domestic chores; housework. countable,in-plural,uncountable
    — 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.
  3. Affection for the home and its material comforts. countable,uncountable
    — As we have seen, Browning renovates her life-after-divorce by framing her domesticity in increasingly autoerotic terms. With her sensuous boudoir, lust for furniture, love affair with houses, and espousal of baked goods, hers is an appetitive domesticity geared to self-pleasure.

词形变化

domesticities plural

词汇关系

近义词
comfort family materialism
反义词
business society worldliness

词源

Etymology tree
English domestic
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English domesticity
From domestic + -ity.
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