aftersense
English
editEtymology
editFrom after- + sense; apparently (re)coined by Henry James in the late 19th century.
Noun
editaftersense
- A perception that follows an experience; a subsequent sense.
- 1678, Bartholomew Ashwood, The Heavenly Trade, London: Samuel Lee, p. 309,[1]
- Peter got good from his fall, by keeping an after-sense of the evil of it on his heart.
- 1878, Henry James, “An International Episode”, in Lady Barbarina, The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales[2], New York: Scribner, published 1908, page 387:
- She privately ached—almost as under a dishonour—with the aftersense of having been inspected in that particular way.
- 1975, Robert Alter, chapter 1, in Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre[3], page 2:
- […] 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.
- 1985, John W. McGhee, Introductory Statistics[4], St. Paul: West Publishing Company, Section 4.4, p. 134:
- The spiral is set in motion and observed by the patient. When stopped, the normal response is a continued aftersense of motion.
- 1678, Bartholomew Ashwood, The Heavenly Trade, London: Samuel Lee, p. 309,[1]