quality of life

Noun

quality of life (countable and uncountable, plural qualities of life)

1. The general well-being of someone, and the degree to which someone's daily experience is enjoyable or unenjoyable.
   • health-related quality of life
   • And almost anyone can have quality of life destroyed by pain.1997, Myles I. Friedman, Improving the Quality of Life: A Holistic Scientific Strategy, page 85
   1. (attributive, usually) Concerning prevailing conditions in public, such as cleanliness, safety, and the pleasantness of the surroundings or lack thereof.
      • quality-of-life offenses such as graffiti writing, loitering, public urination, public drinking, aggressive panhandling, and turnstile jumping
      • 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...2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order
2. Features or improvements designed to make software easier to use without changing the main functionality.