0 a way of living that is unusual, especially when you choose not to have the type of home and job that is considered normal in modern society:
to pursue/seek an alternative lifestyle
Living the vegan alternative lifestyle that we do, my friends and I are a little overwhelmed by the commercialism of Christmas.
This linguistic consensuality extends from alternative lifestyle protestors in the streets outside intergovernmental summits to mainstream academics and government departments.
Its incoherence exerted a singular pressure to discover an alternative lifestyle based on shared experiences of female, and male-female, solidarity.
Alternative lifestyle choices, as they relate to work, wealth and welfare, are therefore either quashed or mainstreamed as an acceptable way to incorporate them into the dominant culture.
There are always the two problems of prevention and cure: the problem of clean-up versus some kind of alternative lifestyle.
It was the centre of an alternative lifestyle, which included alternative medicines, education and so on.
The region is especially popular among retired people, as well as people seeking an alternative lifestyle.
Co-operative living is a kind of alternative lifestyle.
The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision and often follow an alternative lifestyle.
