{
  "id": "leisure.psychological",
  "term": "leisure",
  "sense": "psychological",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "emergencelexicon",
  "domain": "recreation",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "time when work does not happen and one can act in recreation",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "time.dimension",
      "work.effort",
      "recreation.leisure",
      "act.deed",
      "happen.event-occurrence"
    ],
    "interaction": "the interval of time plus the absence of work frees capacity while recreation supplies activity, together forming free, enjoyable time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "free time",
      "volitional engagement",
      "non-obligated activity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, Finland recorded an average of 6.5 leisure hours per day per person, measured in time-use surveys by Statistics Finland.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station crew followed a schedule with 2.5 hours daily allocated for off-duty recreation, documented in NASA's 2021 mission logs.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1916 US eight-hour workday movement led to measurable increases in leisure time, tracked in Bureau of Labor Statistics records by 1920.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "recreation.leisure",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "entertainment.leisure"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "leisure"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added act.deed and happen.event-occurrence to components since definition relies on 'act' and 'happen'; both are constitutive for psychological leisure as a lived interval of non-work activity."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-leisure.psychological"
}