counterlife

English

Etymology

From counter- +‎ life.

Noun

counterlife (plural counterlives)

1. A counterfactual life; a life other than the one actually lived.
   • 1991, American Jewish Committee, American Jewish year book, 1991 - Volume 91‎^[1], →ISBN, page 68:

     More often, they simply struggle with their own counterlives.

   • 2004, Stranded in the Present‎^[2]:

     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^[3], →ISBN, page 125:

     He is hailed by postmodernists for his fictive propositions and counterlives.