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aftersense

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep(o)teros Proto-Germanic *after Old English æfter Middle English after English after ▲ Old English æfter Old English æfter- Middle English after- English after- Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentjō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense English aftersense From after- + sense; apparently (re)coined by Henry James in the late 19th century.

  1. derived from *sent-✻ — “to feel”
  2. derived from *sinn✻
  3. derived from *sennus✻ — “sense, reason, way”
  4. derived from sēnsus — “sensation, feeling, meaning”
  5. derived from sens, sen, san — “sense, perception, direction”
  6. inherited from sense
  7. formed as aftersense — “after- + sense”

Definitions

  1. A perception that follows an experience

    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.
    • She privately ached—almost as under a dishonour—with the aftersense of having been inspected in that particular way.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA