QUALITY OF LIFE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quality of life mean? 

• QUALITY OF LIFE (noun)
  The noun QUALITY OF LIFE has 1 sense:

1. your personal satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with the cultural or intellectual conditions under which you live (as distinct from material comfort)

  Familiarity information: QUALITY OF LIFE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUALITY OF LIFE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Your personal satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with the cultural or intellectual conditions under which you live (as distinct from material comfort)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

the new art museum is expected to improve the quality of life

Hypernyms ("quality of life" is a kind of...):

gratification; satisfaction (state of being gratified or satisfied)

 Context examples 

A group of researchers, cancer centers, and community doctors who are involved in studies of new cancer treatment, prevention, early detection, quality of life, and rehabilitation.

(Clinical Trials Cooperative Group, NCI Dictionary)

Energy healing is being studied in patients receiving cancer therapy, to find out if it can improve quality of life, boost the immune system, or reduce side effects.

(Energy healing, NCI Dictionary)

A questionnaire used to assess general aspects of quality of life related to anorexia and cachexia.

(FAACT Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

Allergic diseases belong to the most common causes of chronic illness and create a high burden of suffering due to the great impairment in quality of life.

(New Approach to Predict Respiratory Allergy in Early Childhood, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A subscale complement to the FACT-G questionnaire developed specifically for evaluating quality of life of patients with hepatobiliary cancer (liver, bile duct and pancreas).

(FACT-Hep Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

A subscale complement to the FACT-G questionnaire developed specifically for evaluating quality of life of patients with head and neck cancer.

(FACT-H&N Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

A subscale complement to the FACT-G developed specifically for evaluating the quality of life of esophageal cancer patients.

(FACT-E Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

A general quality of life instrument intended for use with a variety of chronic illness conditions.

(FACT-G Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

A subscale complement to the FACT-G developed specifically for evaluating the quality of life of gastric cancer patients.

(FACT-Ga Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

A subscale complement to the FACT-G developed specifically for evaluating the quality of life of cancer patients with anemia and fatigue.

(FACT-An Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)