Aftersound

Quick meaning: Aftersound is a noun meaning A sound that persists or remains audible after its source has ceased to produce it; the perception of such a sound.

Meaning

A sound that persists or remains audible after its source has ceased to produce it; the perception of such a sound.

More Meanings

1. (acoustics) The second, slower phase of decay in the sound made by a piano string when it is struck.
2. (phonetics, obsolete) A weaker sound that immediately follows a more salient one, such as the second, less prominent vowel sound in a falling diphthong.

Example Sentences

Edward was awakened that night by a loud clattering noise which left an after-sound of high ringing.

He fired the Winchester twice again, into the distance, then lowered it, the ringing aftersound of the gunfire in his ears.

And the aftersound of the music played in the light-filled drawing room would grow closer to pure silence each year, until time ended.

[…] the strings of an instrument, […] being strucken with the hand, do verberate the ayre in its first sound, and are reverberated by the ayre to an after-sound.

Word Forms

• aftersounds

Synonyms for aftersound

Depending on context, synonyms include echo, resonance, reverberation.

Antonyms for aftersound

Common opposites include foresound.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aftersense, after-impression, afterperception, afterimage, afterview, somatosound.

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