Pseudo-life

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of pseudolife. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

    "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."

Example

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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."

Etymology

From pseudo- + life.

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