Aftersense
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A perception that follows an experience; a subsequent sense.
"1678, Bartholomew Ashwood, The Heavenly Trade, London: Samuel Lee, p. 309, Peter got good from his fall, by keeping an after-sense of the evil of it on his heart."
Example
More examples"1678, Bartholomew Ashwood, The Heavenly Trade, London: Samuel Lee, p. 309, Peter got good from his fall, by keeping an after-sense of the evil of it on his heart."
Etymology
From after- + sense; apparently (re)coined by Henry James in the late 19th century.
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