quality of life

English

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Noun

quality of life (countable and uncountable, plural qualities of life)

1. The general well-being of something or someone.
   • 1997, Myles I. Friedman, Improving the Quality of Life: A Holistic Scientific Strategy‎^[1], page 85:

     And almost anyone can have quality of life destroyed by pain.

   • 2016, Helen James, Douglas Paton, editors, The Consequences of Disasters: Demographic, Planning, and Policy Implications‎^[2], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 69:

     At the Liouguei Reconstruction centre, the guiding philosophy was helping people regain quality of life in ways that reconciled reconstruction activities with the maintenance of social and cultural traditions, both community and school-based.

2. (computing) Features or improvements designed to make software easier to use without changing the main functionality.

Synonyms

• QoL

Translations

general well-being of individuals and societies

• Arabic: جَوْدَة الْحَيَاة f (jawdat al-ḥayāh)
• Catalan: qualitat de vida
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生活質量 / 生活质量 (zh) (shēnghuó zhìliàng)

• Czech: kvalita života f
• Danish: livskvalitet c
• Estonian: elukvaliteet
• Finnish: elämänlaatu (fi)
• French: qualité de vie f
• Galician: calidade de vida f
• German: Lebensqualität (de) f
• Greek: ποιότητα ζωής f (poiótita zoḯs)
• Hungarian: életminőség (hu)
• Icelandic: Lífsgæði n
• Italian: qualità di vita (it) f
• Japanese: クオリティ・オブ・ライフ (quoriti-obu-raifu), 生活の質 (せいかつのしつ, seikatsu no shitsu)
• Kazakh: тұрмыс сапасы (tūrmys sapasy)
• Korean: 삶의 질 (salmui jil)
• Latvian: dzīves kvalitāte f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: livskvalitet (no) m

  Nynorsk: livskvalitet m

• Polish: jakość życia f
• Portuguese: qualidade de vida f
• Russian: ка́чество жи́зни (ru) n (káčestvo žízni)
• Spanish: calidad de vida f
• Swedish: livskvalitet (sv) c
• Turkish: yaşam kalitesi

See also

• quality-adjusted life year
• standard of living