Counterlife
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Counterlife is a noun meaning A counterfactual life; a life other than the one actually lived.
Meaning
A counterfactual life; a life other than the one actually lived.
Example Sentences
More often, they simply struggle with their own counterlives.
He is hailed by postmodernists for his fictive propositions and counterlives.
Introducing difference into the flow of time, it suggested the possibility of counterlives in the present.
“Russell is an alter ego,” [Jay] McInerney says. “I decided early on that he was going to live what Philip Roth called the ‘counterlife’, the life that I could've lived if I had stayed married to the same woman and taken more of a conventional path career-wise.”
Word Forms
- counterlives
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include counterfact, counterpossible, counterworld, counterfactual, counterimagination, pseudo-counterexample.
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