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English
Etymology
after- + sense; apparently (re)coined by Henry James in the late 19th century.
Noun
aftersense
- 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.
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: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, 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, 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.
2007, Toby Litt, Hospital, Penguin, published 2008, page 318: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.