"quality of life" meaning in English

See quality of life in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: en-us-quality of life.ogg [US] Forms: qualities of life [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~|qualities of life}} quality of life (countable and uncountable, plural qualities of life)
  1. The general well-being of something or someone. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (general well-being of individuals and societies): جَوْدَة الْحَيَاة (jawdat al-ḥayāh) [feminine] (Arabic), qualitat de vida (Catalan), 生活質量 (Chinese Mandarin), 生活质量 (shēnghuó zhìliàng) (Chinese Mandarin), kvalita života [feminine] (Czech), livskvalitet [common-gender] (Danish), elukvaliteet (Estonian), elämänlaatu (Finnish), qualité de vie [feminine] (French), calidade de vida [feminine] (Galician), Lebensqualität [feminine] (German), ποιότητα ζωής (poiótita zoḯs) [feminine] (Greek), életminőség (Hungarian), qualità di vita [feminine] (Italian), クオリティ・オブ・ライフ (quoriti-obu-raifu) (Japanese), 生活の質 (seikatsu no shitsu) (alt: せいかつのしつ) (Japanese), тұрмыс сапасы (tūrmys sapasy) (Kazakh), 삶의 질 (salmui jil) (Korean), dzīves kvalitāte [feminine] (Latvian), livskvalitet [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), livskvalitet [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), jakość życia [feminine] (Polish), qualidade de vida [feminine] (Portuguese), ка́чество жи́зни (káčestvo žízni) [neuter] (Russian), calidad de vida [feminine] (Spanish), livskvalitet [common-gender] (Swedish), yaşam kalitesi (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-quality_of_life-en-noun-TRJc5VEv Disambiguation of 'general well-being of individuals and societies': 90 10
  2. (computing) Features or improvements designed to make software easier to use without changing the main functionality. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Computing, Sociology Synonyms: QoL Related terms: standard of living
    Sense id: en-quality_of_life-en-noun-enxsSBwz Disambiguation of Sociology: 29 71 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 66 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for quality of life meaning in English (7.1kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "qualities of life",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~",
        "2": "qualities of life"
      },
      "expansion": "quality of life (countable and uncountable, plural qualities of life)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Myles I. Friedman, Improving the Quality of Life: A Holistic Scientific Strategy, page 85",
          "text": "And almost anyone can have quality of life destroyed by pain.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Helen James, Douglas Paton, editors, The Consequences of Disasters: Demographic, Planning, and Policy Implications, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 69",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The general well-being of something or someone."
      ],
      "id": "en-quality_of_life-en-noun-TRJc5VEv",
      "links": [
        [
          "well-being",
          "well-being"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "jawdat al-ḥayāh",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "جَوْدَة الْحَيَاة"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "word": "qualitat de vida"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "word": "生活質量"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "shēnghuó zhìliàng",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "word": "生活质量"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "kvalita života"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "livskvalitet"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "word": "elukvaliteet"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "word": "elämänlaatu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "qualité de vie"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "calidade de vida"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Lebensqualität"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "poiótita zoḯs",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ποιότητα ζωής"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "word": "életminőség"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "qualità di vita"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "quoriti-obu-raifu",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "word": "クオリティ・オブ・ライフ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "alt": "せいかつのしつ",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "seikatsu no shitsu",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "word": "生活の質"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "tūrmys sapasy",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "word": "тұрмыс сапасы"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "salmui jil",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "word": "삶의 질"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dzīves kvalitāte"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "livskvalitet"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "livskvalitet"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "jakość życia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "qualidade de vida"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "káčestvo žízni",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "ка́чество жи́зни"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "calidad de vida"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "livskvalitet"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
          "word": "yaşam kalitesi"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computing",
          "orig": "en:Computing",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 66",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "29 71",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sociology",
          "orig": "en:Sociology",
          "parents": [
            "Social sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Features or improvements designed to make software easier to use without changing the main functionality."
      ],
      "id": "en-quality_of_life-en-noun-enxsSBwz",
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "functionality",
          "functionality"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) Features or improvements designed to make software easier to use without changing the main functionality."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "6 94",
          "word": "standard of living"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "6 94",
          "word": "QoL"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-us-quality of life.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c6/En-us-quality_of_life.ogg/En-us-quality_of_life.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/En-us-quality_of_life.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "quality of life"
  ],
  "word": "quality of life"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "en:Sociology"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "qualities of life",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~",
        "2": "qualities of life"
      },
      "expansion": "quality of life (countable and uncountable, plural qualities of life)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "standard of living"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Myles I. Friedman, Improving the Quality of Life: A Holistic Scientific Strategy, page 85",
          "text": "And almost anyone can have quality of life destroyed by pain.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Helen James, Douglas Paton, editors, The Consequences of Disasters: Demographic, Planning, and Policy Implications, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 69",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The general well-being of something or someone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "well-being",
          "well-being"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Computing"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Features or improvements designed to make software easier to use without changing the main functionality."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "functionality",
          "functionality"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) Features or improvements designed to make software easier to use without changing the main functionality."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-us-quality of life.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c6/En-us-quality_of_life.ogg/En-us-quality_of_life.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/En-us-quality_of_life.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "QoL"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "jawdat al-ḥayāh",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "جَوْدَة الْحَيَاة"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "word": "qualitat de vida"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "word": "生活質量"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shēnghuó zhìliàng",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "word": "生活质量"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kvalita života"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "livskvalitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "word": "elukvaliteet"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "word": "elämänlaatu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "qualité de vie"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "calidade de vida"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Lebensqualität"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "poiótita zoḯs",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ποιότητα ζωής"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "word": "életminőség"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "qualità di vita"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "quoriti-obu-raifu",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "word": "クオリティ・オブ・ライフ"
    },
    {
      "alt": "せいかつのしつ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "seikatsu no shitsu",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "word": "生活の質"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "tūrmys sapasy",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "word": "тұрмыс сапасы"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "salmui jil",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "word": "삶의 질"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dzīves kvalitāte"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "livskvalitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "livskvalitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "jakość życia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "qualidade de vida"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "káčestvo žízni",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ка́чество жи́зни"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "calidad de vida"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "livskvalitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "general well-being of individuals and societies",
      "word": "yaşam kalitesi"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "quality of life"
  ],
  "word": "quality of life"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.