The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Domestication \Do*mes`ti*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. domestication.]
   The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action
   of taming wild animals.
   [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

domestication
    n 1: adaptation to intimate association with human beings
    2: the attribute of having been domesticated [syn: tameness,
       domestication] [ant: wildness]
    3: accommodation to domestic life; "her explorer husband
       resisted all her attempts at domestication"