counterlife
/kˈaʊntɚlˌaɪf/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A counterfactual life; a life other than the one actually lived.
Example Sentences
- "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.”"