afterglow

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The glow seen in the sky after sunset.

   • Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.
   • Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?
2. 2

   The light emitted by an incandescent object while cooling.

3. 3

   The light emitted by a phosphor after excitation.

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   1. 4

      The mildly euphoric feeling experienced after a pleasurable experience, especially after…

      The mildly euphoric feeling experienced after a pleasurable experience, especially after an orgasm or drug-induced high.

      • She herself had grown old as people should grow old—steadily and firmly. No interruptions, no belated after-glows and spasmodic returns.
      • Nor did he cease attentions once himself glutted: he remained a wooing protagonist even in the “afterglow,” as the sex manuals call it.
   2. 5

      An afterparty.

      • There's an afterglow with singing after the evening worship.

The neighborhood

• antonymforeglow
• antonymhangoverantonym(s) of “post-drug euphoria”
• antonympostcoital tristesseantonym(s) of “post-sex euphoria”
• neighboraftereffect
• neighboralpenglow
• neighborpostcoital