leisurism

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noun

A lifestyle or social system mainly focused on leisure.

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Meanings

nounleisurism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA lifestyle or social system mainly focused on leisure.

    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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    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

Origin

From leisure + -ism.

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APA

leisurism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leisurism

MLA

“leisurism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leisurism. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “leisurism,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leisurism.

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