What-iffery
noun, slang
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Speculation as to what might have happened if things had happened differently. informal, uncountable
"[…] what if Jonah is a piece of what-iffery, a story, an experiment with words, rather than a carefully honed piece of polemic […]"
Example
More examples"[…] what if Jonah is a piece of what-iffery, a story, an experiment with words, rather than a carefully honed piece of polemic […]"
Etymology
From what-if + -ery.
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