Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A visual image that persists after the visual stimulus causing it has ceased to act. Also called photogene.
Wiktionary
- n. An image which persists or remains in negative after the original stimulation has ended.
Etymologies
- after + image (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The afterimage is a simple consequence of adaptation of the rods and cones of the retina.”
“I watched her for a time, with that spicy scent lingering in my mind, and a kind of afterimage, too, of her coppery hair and the way her mouth looked when she smiled.”
“I use a continuous tone on my violin to establish a new relationship to listening, and he uses combinations of colored lights to address things that happen in the viewer's eye, such as afterimage and persistence of vision.”
“The second is the afterimage – Henry on the floor of their home, surrounded by their friends, bleeding.”
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“The transition from rod to cone vision gradually unfolds; floods of afterimage color wash over the vision and gradually decrease like waves.”
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“I am just an empty vessel, an afterimage of what I once was or was I once?”
“When the brilliant afterimage, caused by that brief glance into the sun's dazzling face, had vanished from before his eyes, he returned once more to his instruments.”
“The afterimage was like the pain an amputee might still feel after he lost an arm or a leg.”
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“When the audience was asked to close their eyes at the end of the ad, they were surprised to see the BMW logo as an afterimage.”
“It says that consumers were then able to see this image on the inside of their eyes as an "afterimage.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘afterimage’.
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Psychology
stockholm syndrome, stereotype, ergonomics, human-computer in..., prejudice, neo-luddism, stress, trauma, psychopathology, psychotic, neurosis, depression and 180 more...
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One word book titles
More popular books often have shorter titles. Here is a list of one word book titles
blink, Freakonomics, roots, sugar, banjo, rising, cane, crave, emotions, love, until, dune and 118 more...
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afters
aftermath, after-tax, aftertaste, afterworld, afterword, after hours, after glow, after-hours, after-shave, after the fact, after-wit, afternoon and 44 more...
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parody's Words
defenestrate, behemoth, floss, macchiato, glom, emu, alpaca, crocheted, ampersand, charade, conflate, salacious and 193 more...
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Mnemosyne
Elicityscapes. Re-re-running; get, put.
"'Member dat?"
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
-...linkage, peg, ceremony, memo, mnemosyne, mnemonic, memento, anchor, compose, draw, picture, imagine and 101 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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Hilary's List
Just a list of words I like
wellspring, mystery, wonderment, intrinsic, artisan, enchantment, magic, transience, incomplete, impermanent, imperfect, resonance and 163 more...
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Pamela's List
Level 4 speaking week 1
admire, ambition, experience, grow up, memory, opportunity, proud, regret, success, afterimage
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy
glaucoma, tarpaulin, ford, ratchet, slutlamp, mote, shoring, gryke, riprap, transom, manila, cleat and 68 more...
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inspired by science
noctilucent, jamais vu, l'esprit de l'esc..., tinnitus, phosphene, chirality, holographic princ..., mammatus, event horizon, analemma, singularity, tidal locking and 8 more...
Tweets
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whichbe An optical phenomenon in which the eye's nerves continue to convey an image after an initial image has departed. Typically, the afterimage appears as a likeness of the initial image, except that each of its colors is the complement to those in the initial image.
How many black dots can you find? The black dots you see, and see disappear, are afterimages. This figure is known as a Hermann grid.
Another: Stare at the + in the middle of the blue figure below for 15-30 seconds. Then move your gaze to the + in the center of the white square on the right.
(From ArtLex) Jun 4, 2008