anti-lifeadj.n.
A. adj.
Opposed to living fully and harmoniously with the natural order.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > [adjective] > manner of life
overlived1856
anti-life1929
1929 D. H. Lawrence Let. 12 June in F. Lawrence Not I, But the Wind (1935) 252 The real principle of Evil is not anti-Christ or anti-Jehovah, but anti-life. I agree with you, in a sense, that I am with the anti-Christ. Only I am not anti-life.
1938 ‘N. Blake’ Beast must Die iii. xii. 214 Somewhere deep within her, thought Nigel, there is a stone core of lifelessness, an anti-life principle.
1956 C. Wilson Outsider iii. 47 The atmosphere of the Existentialist Outsider is unpleasant to breathe. There is something nauseating, anti-life, about it.
B. n.
An alleged contrary principle to full and natural living; an attitude, or course of action, in accordance with this principle.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > manner of life > specific
over-living1817
work life1850
pseudo-life1853
half-life1864
vie d'intérieur1889
anti-life1926
1926 D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serpent vi. 112 But he, too, was widdershins, unwinding the sensations of disintegration and anti-life.
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