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otium

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noun

  • A state of leisure, retirement, or peace, particularly time free from business or civic duty that is used for restorative and enlightening activities.

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Even Plato, when the schools of Athens were not a hundred years old, was in circumstances to enjoy the otium cum dignitate.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Charles William Eliot

We were determined to study the otium cum dignitate and dolce far niente, and at the end of this month it would have been difficult to say which of us was the hardier or jollier.

From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Gordon Stables

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  • me-time
  • creative idleness
  • contemplative quiet
  • scholarly retreat

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  • negotium
  • the rat race
  • the grind

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