Quality time is time which is used intensively. The term is used with the connotation that the amount of time is limited, but that this is compensated by more intense use of it.

The term is used in particular for spending time with the people one loves and respects, especially with those towards whom one feels some sort of obligation. Activities pursued are never work-related but are expected by the people getting together to be productive in a non-economical sense. Ideally, quality time is experienced as joyful by everybody present.

It is most often used in the context of one's immediate family; i.e. spouse and/or children.

See also

• real life
• leisure
• weekend
• holiday
• Gemütlichkeit
• stress
• list of things which are neither production nor consumption
• civil society
• euphemisms

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