pseudo-life

English

Etymology

From pseudo- +‎ life.

Pronunciation

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Noun

pseudo-life (countable and uncountable, plural pseudo-lives)

1. Alternative form of pseudolife
   • 2009, Brian Lumley, Necroscope - Volume 1:

     With a precision denying the seemingly eccentric or at best random movements of the rest of his limbs — which now fluttered and twitched like those of a dead frog, electrically coerced into a pseudo-life of their own—the arm and hand of the naked man swept down and sliced open the corpse from just below the ribcage, through the navel and down to the mass of wiry grey pubic hair.

   • 2011, David Crystal, Internet Linguistics: A Student Guide:

     Participation structure: the number of active or potential participants in an interaction, amount they say, the speed at which they say it, whether they are interacting privately or public, and in real life or pseudo-life

   • 2014, Liz Talley, The Sweetest September:

     Turning, she sank against it, fighting against asking John to come back so she wouldn't be alone, so she wouldn't be so conflicted about the decision she'd made to chuck her pseudo-life in Seattle and stay in Magnolia Bend.

Anagrams

• pseudo-file, pseudofile