What does aftersense mean?
Aftersense means A perception that follows an experience; a subsequent sense..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
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 printed text, made easily available in thousands upon thousands of copies, which at best preserves from its literary antecedents a flickering, intermittent aftersense that what it says ought to be true because it is written in a book.
The spiral is set in motion and observed by the patient. When stopped, the normal response is a continued aftersense of motion.
Sarah, who a moment before had been spattered in the face with bone fragments and blood, felt herself grow clean again—though an aftersense of having been touched by such matter remained.
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Aftersense means A perception that follows an experience; a subsequent sense..
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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.
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