aftereffect

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See also: after-effect

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Etymology

From after- +‎ effect.

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Noun

aftereffect (plural aftereffects)

  1. Any delayed effect; an effect which is not immediately manifested.
    • 2009, Kevin Glavin, “The Kali Club”, in Rock Star’s Rainbow, Irvine, Calif.: Kevin Glavin Publishing, →ISBN, pages 311–312:
      And then Rook snapped out of it and noticed (in this strange state he was in—an aftereffect of the soma?) as clear as day everything—almost as if a sixth sense had become acute and he was fully aware of his eminent and imminent death and he saw everything crystal clearly and noticed that Anatoli, usually calm as a cucumber on the set, was now sweating and not calm and perhaps claustrophobic?
    • 2017, Nadia Valman, Laurence Roth, The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures‎, Routledge, →ISBN, page 130:
      Since the Holocaust, fantasies of Jewish power are no longer Salonfähig, no longer openly expressible in “polite” society—at least in Western Europe and North America—even if continuities also persist in antisemitic thinking as do traumatic aftereffects for Jews around the world.

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