alternate self
Another version, elsewhere
An alternate self is a version of oneself imagined to exist in a different timeline, dimension, or set of circumstances—the person you might have been if key choices or events had gone differently.
The concept appears frequently in science fiction and philosophy: In the parallel universe, my alternate self became a doctor instead of a lawyer.
It also describes the curated personas people project online or in different social contexts, versions of themselves that diverge from their private identity.
- doppelgangerSupernatural duplicate of oneself
- evil twinMorally inverted lookalike
- parallelEquidistant at all points
- parallel universeHypothetical coexisting separate reality
- twinOne of matched pair
mirror · mirror image · double · clone · counterpart · shadow · other · multiverse · dimension · split · divergent · echo · reflection · variant · avatar · duplicate · lookalike · simulacrum
- Parallel Livesmultiverse, counterpart, divergence, branching path, what if
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