wifedom

Etymology

From wife + -dom.

wifedom means the condition of marriage for a woman. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

noun

The condition of marriage for a woman.“I have seen a procession of monks, with a nightmare of faces, wearied, dejected, purposeless, hopeless, when not brutalized with the traces of furious rebellion against their world, and in that woful panorama of debased human nature I see the figure of what we condemn women to, when we bid them grow old in listless idleness, if they fail to secure to themselves the privileges of wifedom.”
A woman's devotion to meeting the needs and/or desires of another, as if they were a marriage partner.“We suspect that Mr. Dixon has exaggerated both the extent and intensity of the defiance of common sense as well as common decency which spiritual wifedom implies.”