beforelife

noun

Etymology

By analogy with afterlife.

Definitions

  1. An existence before the beginning of life.

    • The roads men choose in the beforelife lead to infinite joy or infinite misery in the afterlife.
    • Imagine that before any of us is born, we all get together in the beforelife (the pre-birth version of the afterlife) for a meeting to design the rules that will govern society.
    • The point is that, however secular our culture may be, notions of an afterlife (and/or a beforelife) seem to be dying rather hard.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for beforelife. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA