aftersense en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep(o)teros Proto-Germanic *after Old English æfter Middle English after English after ▲ Old English æfter Old English æfter- Middle English after- English after- Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentiō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense English aftersense From after- + sense; apparently (re)coined by Henry James in the late 19th century.
Meanings
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A perception that follows an experience; a subsequent sense.
She privately ached—almost as under a dishonour—with the aftersense of having been inspected in that particular way.
1878, Henry James, “An International Episode”, in Lady Barbarina, The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales, New York: Scribner, published 1908, page 387:Sarah, who a moment before had been spattered in the face with bone fragments and blood, felt herself grow clean again—though an aftersense of having been touched by such matter remained.
2007, Toby Litt, Hospital, Penguin, published 2008, page 318:[…] the printed text, made easily available in thousands upon thousands of copies, which at best preserves from its literary antecedents a flickering, intermittent aftersense that what it says ought to be true because it is written in a book.
1975, Robert Alter, chapter 1, in Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre, page 2:The spiral is set in motion and observed by the patient. When stopped, the normal response is a continued aftersense of motion.
1985, John W. McGhee, Introductory Statistics, St. Paul: West Publishing Company, Section 4.4, p. 134:1678, 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.