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Leisure vs Lifestyle - What's the difference?

leisure | lifestyle |

As nouns the difference between leisure and lifestyle

is that leisure is freedom provided by the cessation of activities while lifestyle is a style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person or group.

leisure

English

Noun

  • Freedom provided by the cessation of activities.
  • Time free from work or duties.
  • * Sir W. Temple
  • The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care.
  • * 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 11
  • Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as shortly presented themselves, or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment.
  • * 1908 , William David Ross (translator), Aristotle,
  • This is why the mathematical arts were founded in Egypt; for there the priestly caste was allowed to be at leisure .
  • Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
  • * Dryden
  • He sighed, and had no leisure more to say.

    See also

    * ease * recreation

    lifestyle

    Alternative forms

    * life style * life-style

    Noun

  • A style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person or group
  • (marketing) the totality of the likes and dislikes of a particular section of the market, especially when expressed in terms of the products and services that they would buy; a marketing strategy based on the self-image of such a group