Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In psychology, any phase of sensation which persists after the withdrawal of the exciting stimulus: as, a visual afterimage; an auditory after-image; an afterimage of pressure.
- noun An image perceived after withdrawing the eye from a brilliantly illuminated object.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
image which persists or remains innegative after the originalstimulation has ended.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased
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Examples
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It is simply good writing as much as anything to conjure one's quirks not in an event described with tedious plainness as if leisurely studied in the light of day, but in the fractured details revealed as by a thunderbolt for only a moment, resolving into a whole in the imaginative after-image.
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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You spent two hours today googling "diaper rash" and now every time you close your eyes, you have an after-image of large red welts all over an inflamed scrotum.
Meredith Fein Lichtenberg, CCE: Toy Story: Motherhood and Sexual Healing CCE Meredith Fein Lichtenberg 2011
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You spent two hours today googling "diaper rash" and now every time you close your eyes, you have an after-image of large red welts all over an inflamed scrotum.
Meredith Fein Lichtenberg, CCE: Toy Story: Motherhood and Sexual Healing CCE Meredith Fein Lichtenberg 2011
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He goes home and stares at Midge's painting, the after-image, what she sees when she closes her eyes, presumably thinking about her toxic addiction and how SCDP has its own toxic addiction.
Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Don Strikes Back Samantha Zalaznick 2010
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Right now he's looking at his own after-image, of what SCDP is left with.
Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Don Strikes Back Samantha Zalaznick 2010
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You spent two hours today googling "diaper rash" and now every time you close your eyes, you have an after-image of large red welts all over an inflamed scrotum.
Meredith Fein Lichtenberg, CCE: Toy Story: Motherhood and Sexual Healing CCE Meredith Fein Lichtenberg 2011
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It is simply good writing as much as anything to conjure one's quirks not in an event described with tedious plainness as if leisurely studied in the light of day, but in the fractured details revealed as by a thunderbolt for only a moment, resolving into a whole in the imaginative after-image.
On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010
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You spent two hours today googling "diaper rash" and now every time you close your eyes, you have an after-image of large red welts all over an inflamed scrotum.
Meredith Fein Lichtenberg, CCE: Toy Story: Motherhood and Sexual Healing CCE Meredith Fein Lichtenberg 2011
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The painting he tries to sell is called Number 4 (because we're in season 4?), and it's what he describes as an after-image, "the whole thing is about what she sees when she closes her eyes," he asks, "what's more real?"
Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Don Strikes Back Samantha Zalaznick 2010
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Who's that woman delivering the cool torch number "That's Him Over There" (by Lew Spence and Marilyn Keith, who was to become Marilyn Bergman) and then acting the pause between lovelorn lyrics so memorably she leaves a heart-breaking after-image.
David Finkle: The Real Tyne Daly Stands Up at Manhattan's Feinstein's at Loews Regency 2010
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