noun
- the habits, attitudes, tastes, moral standards, economic level, etc., that together constitute the mode of living of an individual or group.
adjective
- pertaining to or catering to a certain lifestyle: unhealthy lifestyle choices; lifestyle advertising; a luxury lifestyle hotel.
- (of a drug) used to treat a medical condition that is not life-threatening or painful: lifestyle drugs for baldness.
noun
- a set of attitudes, habits, or possessions associated with a particular person or group
- such attitudes, etc, regarded as fashionable or desirable
- NZ
- a luxurious semirural manner of living
- (as modifier)a lifestyle property
adjective
- suggestive of a fashionable or desirable lifestylea lifestyle café
- (of a drug) designed to treat problems, such as impotence or excess weight, which affect a person’s quality of life rather than his or her health
n.also life-style, 1929, from life (n.) + style (n.); originally a specific term used by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler (1870-1937); broader sense is by 1961. n.
- A way of life or style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person or group.