Quality time is the time someone spends with the people they love and respect, especially with those towards whom they feel 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.

The connotation is that the amount of time is limited, but that this is compensated by more intense use of it.

See also:

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