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

Examples

"the new art museum is expected to improve the quality of life"

Used in print

(Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)

I take the central meaning here to be the contrast between the drab empty quality_of_life without literature and a life enriched by it .

Related terms

gratification

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