I think the ancient Romans' concept of otium is close to what you are looking for. It is often translated as "leisure" as in Seneca's essay On Leisure (De Otio

I think the ancient Romans' concept of otium is close to what you are looking for. It is often translated as "leisure" as in Seneca's essay On Leisure (De Otio). Actually the word is hard to translate into a single English word because we don't really have a parallel concept. It meant something more like "freedom from business concerns" or "freedom to think productively." [1] Latin writers from Cicero to Augustine understood the word in a very similar way. For example the poet Ovid once referred to his poetry as otia nostra (creations of our leisure). [2] In his case the leisure time was due to being banished from Rome to the little town of Tomi on the Black Sea. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Otio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Otio [2] https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-tristia/1924/pb_LCL151.71.xml https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-tristia/1924/pb_LCL15...