What does Quiet Quitting mean?

In the LexZicon, Quiet Quitting is doing only the bare minimum required of a task or role, without officially stepping away from it. Pronounced /KWY-et KWIT-ing/, it sits under Q in Famdom's dictionary of the words families use.

How is Quiet Quitting used in a sentence?

As a family might say it: "He's still technically doing chores, but it's full Quiet Quitting." The LexZicon keeps one line like this for every term, so the word is read the way it lands at home and not only as a definition. Hearing it in a sentence is usually what tells a brand whether the word fits inside family life.

Why is Quiet Quitting in the LexZicon?

Because families use it. The LexZicon is Famdom's dictionary of family language: the words children, parents and grandparents actually say, decoded so a brand can follow what a household means. Quiet Quitting is one of the hundred terms of the 2026 wordlist, each with a definition and a sentence, and every entry links on to the next term and to the A to Z.

Quiet Quitting

Decoded

/KWY-et KWIT-ing/

The definition

Doing only the bare minimum required of a task or role, without officially stepping away from it.

The entry

In a sentence: "He's still technically doing chores, but it's full Quiet Quitting."
Not to be confused with: Queen
Origin: Decoded by Famdom from the words families used in 2026, for the LexZicon wordlist.

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What does Quiet Quitting mean?: In the LexZicon, Quiet Quitting is doing only the bare minimum required of a task or role, without officially stepping away from it. Pronounced /KWY-et KWIT-ing/, it sits under Q in Famdom's dictionary of the words families use.
How is Quiet Quitting used in a sentence?: As a family might say it: "He's still technically doing chores, but it's full Quiet Quitting." The LexZicon keeps one line like this for every term, so the word is read the way it lands at home and not only as a definition. Hearing it in a sentence is usually what tells a brand whether the word fits inside family life.
Why is Quiet Quitting in the LexZicon?: Because families use it. The LexZicon is Famdom's dictionary of family language: the words children, parents and grandparents actually say, decoded so a brand can follow what a household means. Quiet Quitting is one of the hundred terms of the 2026 wordlist, each with a definition and a sentence, and every entry links on to the next term and to the A to Z.