Definition
An independent existence with some characteristics of life.
In Context
- "take on a life of its own"
- "Sartre rejects the notion that an imagined character possesses, in any rational sense, "a life of its own"."
- "[…], information takes on not only a speed of its own, but a life of its own."
- "A massive hangover with a life of its own kept Fess pinned to his bed most of Sunday."