beforelife

English

Etymology

By analogy with afterlife.

Noun

beforelife (plural beforelives)

1. An existence before the beginning of life.
   • 2009, Randy Alcorn, Edge of Eternity, →ISBN, page 258:

     The roads men choose in the beforelife lead to infinite joy or infinite misery in the afterlife.

   • 2012, N. Gregory Mankiw, Principles of Economics, sixth edition, page 426:

     Imagine that before any of us is born, we all get together in the beforelife (the pre-birth version of the afterlife) for a meeting to design the rules that will govern society.

   • 2014, William Lowell Randall, The Stories We Are: An Essay on Self-Creation, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 150:

     The point is that, however secular our culture may be, notions of an afterlife (and/or a beforelife) seem to be dying rather hard.

See also

• afterlife
• forelife

Anagrams

• forebelief