English Dictionary

what-iffery

名詞

くだけた表現 不可算名詞

(informal) Speculation as to what might have happened if something else had happened earlier.

日本語の意味

もしも違う出来事が先に起こっていた場合の結果についての推測や空想 / 異なる出来事が起こった場合に何があったかを想像する行為

After the game, his friends dismissed his what-iffery about the missed free throw, but he couldn't stop imagining how different things might have been.

試合後、彼の友人たちは外したフリースローについての彼のたられば話を一蹴したが、彼は結果がどれほど違っていただろうかと想像せずにはいられなかった。

意味（1）

(informal) Speculation as to what might have happened if something else had happened earlier.

[…] what if Jonah is a piece of what-iffery, a story, an experiment with words, rather than a carefully honed piece of polemic […]