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counterlife

counterlife noun: a counterfactual life; a life other than the one actually lived.

Noun

counterlife (plural counterlives)

  1. A counterfactual life; a life other than the one actually lived.
    • More often, they simply struggle with their own counterlives.1991, American Jewish Committee, American Jewish year book, 1991 - Volume 91, →ISBN, page 68
    • Introducing difference into the flow of time, it suggested the possibility of counterlives in the present.2004, Stranded in the Present

Forms of counterlife

pluralcounterlives

Origin of counterlife

From counter- + life.

Questions about counterlife

What does counterlife mean?
Counterlife means a counterfactual life; a life other than the one actually lived.
What part of speech is counterlife?
Counterlife is a noun.
What is the plural of counterlife?
The plural of counterlife is counterlives.

Words near counterlife in the dictionary

  1. counterlegals
  2. counterlegislation
  3. counterlegislations
  4. counterless
  5. counterliberal
  6. counterlife
  7. counterligand
  8. counterligands
  9. counterlike
  10. counterline
  11. counterlines

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