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Domesticity vs Domestical - What's the difference?

domesticity | domestical |

As nouns the difference between domesticity and domestical

is that domesticity is affection for the home and its material comforts while domestical is a domestic; a household servant; a member of a household.

As an adjective domestical is

{{cx|archaic|lang=en}} Domestic.

domesticity

English

Noun

(domesticities)
  • affection for the home and its material comforts

    • Antonyms

    * business, society, worldliness

    Synonyms

    * comfort, family, materialism

    domestical

    English

    Alternative forms

    *domesticall

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Domestic.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • 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 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

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

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