quality of life Meaning of "quality of life"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) your personal satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with the cultural or intellectual conditions under which you live (as distinct from material comfort)

Usage(s):

  1. It's a response to the longer-term fact that too many people are missing out on a historic, century-long improvement in the quality of life.
  2. Pollution is ruining the quality of life in much of urban Asia.
  3. National income has been rising for the last 20 years, but measures of the quality of life have fallen.
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/ˌæ prɪ ˈhɛn sɪv /