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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A counterfactual life; a life other than the one actually lived..
More often, they simply struggle with their own counterlives.
Introducing difference into the flow of time, it suggested the possibility of counterlives in the present.
He is hailed by postmodernists for his fictive propositions and counterlives.
“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.”
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Counterlife means A counterfactual life; a life other than the one actually lived..
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More often, they simply struggle with their own counterlives.
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