afterimage
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of afterimage
Example Sentences
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You’ll feel loss, but the afterimage of this singular woman’s belief in finding light is what will burn.
From Los Angeles Times
With an orange and yellow face, teal-ringed eyes and oversize lips, it could be the glowing afterimage of someone who’s looked in the mirror a moment too long.
From New York Times
Bodies — theirs and others — fill in the space, but their afterimage reverberates.
From New York Times
Once, when I was a teenager, I saw a fireball that was so bright that it left an afterimage on my eye.
From Scientific American
Her scores can evoke the glint and glare of staring at the sun — its beauty, its harshness, its burning afterimage — but also the slowly dizzying churn of the depths of the sea.
From New York Times
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