Quality of Life
Quality of life
The well-being or quality of life of a population is an important concern in
economics and
political science. It is measured by many social and economic factors. A large part is
standard of living, the amount of money and access to goods and services that a person has; these numbers are fairly easily measured. Others like
freedom,
happiness,
art,
environmental health, and
innovation are far harder to measure. This has created an inevitable imbalance as programs and policies are created to fit the easily available economic numbers while ignoring the other measures, that are very difficult to plan for or assess.
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well-being
Noun
1. a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous; "the town was finally on the upbeat after our recent troubles"
(synonym) wellbeing, welfare, upbeat, eudaemonia, eudaimonia
(antonym) ill-being
(hypernym) prosperity, successfulness
(hyponym) fool's paradise
Well-being
(n.)
The state or condition of being well; welfare; happiness; prosperity; as, virtue is essential to the well-being of men or of society.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Synonyms and related words:
Easy Street, Hygeia, abundance, acceptance, advantage, affluence, amusement, animal pleasure, avail, bed of roses, behalf, behoof, benefit, benison, blessing, bloom, bodily pleasure, boon, carnal delight, clover, comfort, composure, content, contentedness, contentment, coziness, creature comforts, ease, easy circumstances, easy street, emotional health, endpleasure, enjoyment, entertainment, entire satisfaction, euphoria, felicity, fitness, fleshpots, flush, forepleasure, fruition, fulfillment, fun, gain, glow, good, gracious life, gracious living, gratification, great satisfaction, gusto, happiness, health, hearty enjoyment, intellectual pleasure, interest, joie de vivre, keen pleasure, kicks, lap of luxury, life of ease, loaves and fishes, luxury, mental health, peace of mind, physical condition, physical fitness, physical pleasure, pleasure, profit, prosperity, prosperousness, quiet pleasure, reconcilement, reconciliation, relish, resignation, rosiness, satisfaction, security, self-gratification, self-indulgence, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure, sexual pleasure, solid comfort, success, sweetness of life, the affluent life, the good life, thriving, thriving condition, titillation, upward mobility, velvet, voluptuousness, weal, wealth, welfare, world of good, zest
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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