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comfort zone

comfort zone noun: the range of temperature, humidity, and other environmental factors that people or other organisms require in order to be physiologically unstressed.

Noun

comfort zone (plural comfort zones)

  1. The range of temperature, humidity, and other environmental factors that people or other organisms require in order to be physiologically unstressed.
    • The child who swings between extremes has trouble finding the comfort zone—the area in which her body is comfortable, efficient, and alert.2014, Terri Mauro, The Everything Parent's Guide to Sensory Processing Disorder, →ISBN, page 191
    • All this is very bad news for coral, which has a fairly limited temperature comfort zone.2015, The Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2000, →ISBN
  2. (broadly, idiomatic) The range of circumstances in which a person feels relaxed or able to cope.
    • The demanding interview panel took him well out of his comfort zone.
    • Anything is a strong word… But the major building blocks of life: work, relationships, leisure activities and growth – dancing can help you with all of these. How? By getting you out of your comfort zone. And getting out of your comfort zone is the first step towards being a dancer, as well as...2021 January 11, “How Dancing Can Help You Do Anything”, in Harlequin The Dance Store, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2021

comfort zone meaning in Arabic, Malay and Indonesian

comfort zone in Arabic

circumstances in which a person feels relaxed
مِنْطَقَة رَاحَة minṭaqat rāḥa

comfort zone in Malay

circumstances in which a person feels relaxed
zon selesa

comfort zone in Indonesian

circumstances in which a person feels relaxed
zona nyaman

Examples of comfort zone in a sentence

  • The desirable comfort zone indicated lies between 30 and 65% relative humidity.2015, Victor Olgyay, Design with Climate: Bioclimatic Approach to Architectural Regionalism, →ISBN:
  • The warmest temperature that defines this comfort zone is the critical high temperature, above which chickens suffer heat stress.2016, Gail Damerow, The Chicken Health Handbook, →ISBN:
  • By getting you out of your comfort zone.2021 January 11, “How Dancing Can Help You Do Anything”, in Harlequin The Dance Store, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2021:

Forms of comfort zone

pluralcomfort zones

Questions about comfort zone

What does comfort zone mean?
Comfort zone means the range of temperature, humidity, and other environmental factors that people or other organisms require in order to be physiologically unstressed.
What is comfort zone in Arabic?
Comfort zone in Arabic is مِنْطَقَة رَاحَة (minṭaqat rāḥa). See Comfort zone meaning in Arabic.
How do you use comfort zone in a sentence?
The desirable comfort zone indicated lies between 30 and 65% relative humidity.
What part of speech is comfort zone?
Comfort zone is a noun.
What is the plural of comfort zone?
The plural of comfort zone is comfort zones.

Words near comfort zone in the dictionary

  1. comfort stop
  2. comfort stops
  3. comfort tone
  4. comfort woman
  5. comfort women
  6. comfort zone
  7. comfort zones
  8. comfort-ate
  9. comfort-eat
  10. comfort-eaten
  11. comfort-eating

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