quality of life

1. 1.

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

   “the new art museum is expected to improve the quality of life”

   Broadergratification

Questions about quality of life

What does quality of life mean?

quality of life means "your personal satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with the cultural or intellectual conditions under which you live (as distinct from material comfort)".

Is quality of life a common word?

quality of life is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.