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afterimage

[ af-ter-im-ij, ahf- ]

noun

Psychology.
  1. a visual image or other sense impression that persists after the stimulus that caused it is no longer operative.


afterimage

/ ˈɑːftərˌɪmɪdʒ /

noun

  1. a sustained or renewed sensation, esp visual, after the original stimulus has ceased Also calledaftersensationphotogene
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of afterimage1

1875–80; translation of German Nachbild; after, image
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Example Sentences

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.

Bodies — theirs and others — fill in the space, but their afterimage reverberates.

Once, when I was a teenager, I saw a fireball that was so bright that it left an afterimage on my eye.

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.

When she tilted her head, she seemed to break into three different people again...misty afterimages blurring together, like a photograph of someone moving too fast to capture.

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