"counterlife" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From counter- + life.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1991, American Jewish Committee, American Jewish year book, 1991 - Volume 91, →ISBN, page 68:",
          "text": "More often, they simply struggle with their own counterlives.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Stranded in the Present:",
          "text": "Introducing difference into the flow of time, it suggested the possibility of counterlives in the present.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Jay L. Halio, Turning Up the Flame: Philip Roth's Later Novels, →ISBN, page 125:",
          "text": "He is hailed by postmodernists for his fictive propositions and counterlives.",
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        "A counterfactual life; a life other than the one actually lived."
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        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ]
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  "word": "counterlife"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From counter- + life.",
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          "ref": "1991, American Jewish Committee, American Jewish year book, 1991 - Volume 91, →ISBN, page 68:",
          "text": "More often, they simply struggle with their own counterlives.",
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          "ref": "2004, Stranded in the Present:",
          "text": "Introducing difference into the flow of time, it suggested the possibility of counterlives in the present.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2005, Jay L. Halio, Turning Up the Flame: Philip Roth's Later Novels, →ISBN, page 125:",
          "text": "He is hailed by postmodernists for his fictive propositions and counterlives.",
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        "A counterfactual life; a life other than the one actually lived."
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