different between domesticity vs domestical

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

• domesticall

Etymology

From Latin domesticus +? -al.

Adjective

domestical (comparative more domestical, superlative most domestical)

1. (archaic) Domestic.
   • c. 1579, Philip Sidney, The Defense of Poesy

     Our private and domestical matter.

   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.1:

     It were a kind of treason to do so in our owne affaires and domesticall [transl. domestiques] matters, wherein of necessity one must resolve and take a side; but for a man that hath neither charge nor expresse commandement to urge him, not to busie or entermedle himselfe therein, I holde it more excusable […].

Noun

domestical

1. (archaic) A domestic; a household servant; a member of a household.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “domestical”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

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