domesticity

Definitions

The state of being at home or the enjoyment of home life.

The routine activities and chores associated with running a household.

Examples

After years of traveling the world, she found a strange comfort in the quiet routine of domesticity.

The novel explores the tension between artistic ambition and the mundane demands of domesticity.

He was never truly suited for the settled life of domesticity, preferring the unpredictability of the open road.

Synonyms

homeliness family life housewifery home life domestic life housekeeping homemaking

Antonyms

public life adventure nomadism wanderlust worldliness roaming vagabondage