Why this word is great
UNDERLIFE — [Noun] The concealed strata of existence, the unacknowledged or deliberately hidden aspects of one’s being or activity. From under- ("beneath, hidden") + life ("existence, animate being"). Unlike "subconscious" (which refers to mental processes below awareness) or "underworld" (which implies criminality), underlife is the quiet parallel existence—neither repressed nor illicit, merely unseen. It is the second novel written in secret and tucked beneath the bed, the meticulous rituals of a solitary walker who times their steps to avoid cracks, the way a clerk who spends his days filing permits becomes, by night, an amateur astronomer charting comets. Underlife is the proof that we are always more than what others perceive, and that the truest parts of a person often go unspoken.