pseudo-life

A form of pseudolife — Something that has many of the characteristics of life but which is not life.

Meanings

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

plural pseudo-lives

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of pseudolife.

    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

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

    2009, Brian Lumley, Necroscope - Volume 1

    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.

    2014, Liz Talley, The Sweetest September

Origin

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