after-image

Noun

Meaning

The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

afterimage

Examples

But I believe is nonetheless not a movie at all, but something far more pure — a pristine document of the market economy, a kind of visual after-image created as an incidental side effect of the exchange of large sums of capital. Source: Internet

When players focus on an object and then look away, the image of that object, the after-image, stays with them for a short time. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

after-hours joint after-hours letter after-hours service after-impression after-life after-market