counterlife
English
Etymology
From counter- + life.
Noun
counterlife (plural counterlives)
- A counterfactual life; a life other than the one actually lived.
- 1991, American Jewish Committee, American Jewish year book, 1991 - Volume 91, →ISBN, page 68:
- More often, they simply struggle with their own counterlives.
- 2004, Stranded in the Present:
- Introducing difference into the flow of time, it suggested the possibility of counterlives in the present.
- 2005, Jay L. Halio, Turning Up the Flame: Philip Roth's Later Novels, →ISBN, page 125:
- He is hailed by postmodernists for his fictive propositions and counterlives.
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