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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

afterwardsness en · NOUN

Etymology

From afterwards + -ness. Coined by Jean Laplanche in his 1998 work Essays on Otherness, as a translation of Sigmund Freud's German term Nachträglichkeit, on the model of the French translation après-coup.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The concept that an earlier event in one's life can later acquire a meaning.

Forms

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Translations (1)

pt posterioridade (the concept that an earlier event in one's life can later acquire a meaning)