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leisurism en · NOUN

Etymology

From leisure + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A lifestyle or social system mainly focused on leisure.
    • The real revolution of our time may prove to be "creeping leisurism"; a steady movement toward a society that can meet all its needs with a working day of no more than three or four hours. 1954, Franklin Watts, The Pocket Book Magazine, volume 2, page 94:
    • This mystique nourishes the values, outlooks, and life-styles of achievement, careerism, leisurism, and consumerism that pervade American culture. 1982, Cornel West, Prophesy Deliverance!, page 120:

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