Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The atmospheric glow that remains for a short time after sunset.
- n. The light emitted after removal of a source of energy, especially:
- n. The glow of an incandescent metal as it cools.
- n. The emission of light from a phosphor after removal of excitation.
- n. The comfortable feeling following a pleasant experience.
- n. A lingering impression of past glory or success.
Wiktionary
- n. the glow seen in the sky after sunset
- n. the light emitted by an incandescent object while cooling
- n. the light emitted by a phosphor after excitation
- n. sex, drugs the mildly euphoric feeling experienced after a pleasurable experience, especially after an orgasm or drug-induced high.
- n. an afterparty
Etymologies
- From after- + glow (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I carry about no afterglow from the 1990s — they only look good compared to the 80s and the 00s which both stunk putrid economically for workers.”
Matthew Yglesias » It’s Stupid How We Always Seem to do It Again
“How much of this reflects a bullish stock market's afterglow is up for debate, but investors are kicking off the new quarter with little trepidation.”
The Wall Street Journal: Options Offer Clues to Earnings and Beyond
“As those campus communities enjoy the afterglow from the weekend and a wealth of attention leading to the regional semifinals that begin”
“Still basking in the afterglow from a short trip out to San Diego to visit good friends Ed and Jen, I hunted up an email from Ed from last summer.”
“The first and most well-established data point comes from the cosmic microwave background CMB, the so-called afterglow of the big bang.”
“This time is called the afterglow and is still a great time to shoot some low-light shots.”
“Such an event is thought by some scientists to be the cause of one type of gamma-ray burst, but the only radio emission seen so far from these has been from the long-lived "afterglow" that follows the original burst.”
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Intergalactic energy bust remains mysterious
“More interestingly though, I find my orgasms last longer than my partners...and not just the actual climax but the "afterglow" can go on for 20 - 25 minutes.”
“The "afterglow" effect is very real and is a bane to customers of self-help seminars and the like a boon to business.”
“Interminable seemed his lonely vigil in Miss Lumley's drawing-room, where the character of the original proprietress came out to him more than ever before in a kind of afterglow of old sociabilities, a vulgar, ghostly reference.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘afterglow’.
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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perrch
perch, fallow, gale, sparrows, dreary, crust, tramped, glare, plod, trudge, tramp, tumble and 13 more...
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RitaJKing's list
transparency
shimmer, fantastical, sansula, rapture, melancholy, obviated, parenthetically, apoplexy, indelible, pillory, demagogues, quark and 41 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Buttery
Words that make me feel cozy
Noodle, Nugget, Butter, Soft, Snug, Feather, Socks, Knit, Mug, Curl, Billow, Lounge and 315 more...
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Words that delight me
tepid, perfunctory, trope, benign, inordinate, bewildering, ersatz, boon, delectable, apt, scuttlebutt, sequester and 398 more...
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Rose varieties
Rosarians have names for thousands of varieties of roses.
holy toledo, gourmet popcorn, apple jack, barbara bush, burning desire, hot tamale, tradescant, sweet surrender, sweet chariot, pinocchio, oyster pearl, olympiad and 309 more...
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tragedy of the commons
insomnia, arabesque, carousal, lucifer, riot, submerge, initiate, indigo, existence, magenta, opus, sleeplessness and 145 more...
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thegirlnextfloor's list
autumnal, avalanche, silhouette, antique, abysmal, scorch, sonic, surge, symmetry, whisper, penchant, dissipate and 349 more...
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Rocketeer's Words
defenestrate, shutterbug, antique, periscope, dogma, peculiar, eccentric, banana, apple, pear, cherry, photograph and 189 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1696 more...
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Glow On
Halos, arcs, and other glowy phenomena.
gegenschein, nightglow, dayglow, airglow, afterglow, icebow, moonbow, fogbow, rainbow, sundog, parhelion, anthelion and 35 more...
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misc 2
other stuff.
aloof, diaphanous, lilac, enrich, afterglow, arrhythmia, barrage, unify, unite, converge, crescendo, nutrient and 58 more...
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autrefois's Words
tassel, vespertine, susurrus, crepuscular, maddening, aureate, halcyon, happenstance, kismet, carousel, luscious, mendacious and 56 more...
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Just Plain Beautiful
Words that are just pretty. I don't know whether it's because of what they mean that I find them pretty, or because of how they sound, or both. But these are my lovely words.
penumbra, crimson, afterglow, topaz, lyre, velvet, ivory, mist, vespertine, oubliette, aria, crystalline and 31 more...
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Nature, skies...
general descriptive terms
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