quality of life

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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.

   1. (law enforcement, usually attributive) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
      • 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order:

        In July 1994, New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani and police commissioner William Bratton began implementing an order-maintenance policing strategy emphasizing proactive and aggressive enforcement of misdemeanor laws against quality-of-life offenses such as graffiti writing, loitering, public urination, public drinking, aggressive panhandling, turnstile jumping, and prostitution.

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

• QoL

• quality-adjusted life year
• standard of living