aftersense
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.
- 1678, Bartholomew Ashwood, The Heavenly Trade, London: Samuel Lee, p. 309,
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