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English

Etymology

domestic +? -ity

Noun

domesticity (countable and uncountable, plural domesticities)

1. Life at home with one's family.
2. (in the plural) Domestic chores; housework.
3. Affection for the home and its material comforts.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:domesticity.

Synonyms

• comfort, family, materialism

Antonyms

• business, society, worldliness

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• domestick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French domestique, from Latin domesticus, from domus (“house, home”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??m?st?k/
• Rhymes: -?st?k
• Hyphenation: do?mes?tic

Adjective

domestic (comparative more domestic, superlative most domestic)

1. Of or relating to the home.
   • 1994, George Whitmore, Getting Rid of Robert in Violet Quill:

     “Dan’s not as domestic as you," I commented rather nastily.

2. Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.

3. (of an animal) Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
   • 1890, US Bureau of Animal Industry, Annual report v 6/7, 1889/90

     It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals.

4. Internal to a specific country.
   • 1996, Robert O. Keohane, Helen V. Milner, Internationalization and Domestic Politics:

     The proportion of international economic flows relative to domestic ones.
5. Tending to stay at home; not outgoing.

Synonyms

• (of or relating to the home): bourgeois, civilized, comfortable
• (kept by someone): domesticated

Antonyms

• (of or relating to the home): adventurous, social
• (local): foreign, global
• (kept by someone): wild, feral

Derived terms

• domestic cat
• domestic hot water
• domestic violence

Translations

Noun

domestic (plural domestics)

1. A maid or household servant.
   • 1992, Mary Romero, Maid in the U.S.A.

     New standards of cleanliness increased the workload for domestics.

2. A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent.
   • 2005, Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission Against Domestic Violence, Domestic Violence in Whatcom County (read on the Whatcom County website at[2] on 20 May 2006) - The number of “verbal domestics” (where law enforcement determines that no assault has occurred and where no arrest is made), decreased significantly.

Translations

Related terms

Anagrams

• comedist, cosmetid, demotics, docetism

Interlingua

Adjective

domestic (not comparable)

1. domestic, domesticated, pertaining to homes, home life or husbandry

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French domestique, Latin domesticus. Largely replaced earlier dumesnic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do?mes.tik/

Adjective

domestic m or n (feminine singular domestic?, masculine plural domestici, feminine and neuter plural domestice)

1. domestic (of or relating to the home)
2. (of animals) domestic

Declension

Synonyms

• (of or related to the house): casnic

Related terms

• domestici
• domesticitate