Noun
a glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset
the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event
Source: WordNetA man is entitled to only one great passion in a lifetime. Whether it's music or a profession or a woman, everything else pales in its afterglow. The searing shock so changes one's chemistry that if the object is lost, the experience can never be repeated. Only anticlimax remains. Jack McDevitt
Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence. Rabindranath Tagore
The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention. Bob Graham
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. Theodore Isaac Rubin
he basked in the afterglow of his victory Source: Internet
Edvard Munch 's painting The Scream possibly depicts an afterglow during this period. Source: Internet