after-effect

Noun

Meaning

after-effect (plural after-effects)

An effect; especially, one that is experienced only after a delay, or only in the long term.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

after effect

Synonyms

outcome aftermath by-product placenta repercussion byproduct followup afterglow hangover upshot blowback aftershock afterbirth side effect sequela

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Antonyms

foundation source origin occasion precursor inception

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Examples

You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles when a carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Friedrich Nietzsche

Close letter words and terms

after-dinner speech after-discovered evidence after-eatage after-event after-eye after-game