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aftereffect

/ˈɑːftəɹ.ɪˌfɛkt/US/ˈæftəɹ.əˌfɛkt/

aftereffect noun: any delayed effect; an effect which is not immediately manifested.

Noun

aftereffect (plural aftereffects)

  1. Any delayed effect; an effect which is not immediately manifested.
    • And then Rook snapped out of it and noticed (in this strange state he was in—an aftereffect of the soma?) as clear as day everything—almost as if a sixth sense had become acute and he was fully aware of his eminent and imminent death and he saw everything crystal clearly and noticed that Anatoli...2009, Kevin Glavin, “The Kali Club”, in Rock Star’s Rainbow, Irvine, Calif.: Kevin Glavin Publishing, →ISBN, pages 311–312
    • Since the Holocaust, fantasies of Jewish power are no longer Salonfähig, no longer openly expressible in “polite” society—at least in Western Europe and North America—even if continuities also persist in antisemitic thinking as do traumatic aftereffects for Jews around the world.2017, Nadia Valman, Laurence Roth, The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures, Routledge, →ISBN, page 130

aftereffect meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

aftereffect in Tamil

பின்விளைவு

aftereffect in Urdu

aftereffect
اثر مابعد asr mā bād

aftereffect in Malayalam

delayed effect
അനന്തരഫലം anantaraphalaṁ

Forms of aftereffect

pluralaftereffects
alternative formafter-effect

Origin of aftereffect

From after- + effect.

Questions about aftereffect

What does aftereffect mean?
Aftereffect means any delayed effect; an effect which is not immediately manifested.
What is aftereffect in Tamil?
Aftereffect in Tamil is பின்விளைவு. See Aftereffect meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is aftereffect?
Aftereffect is a noun.
How do you pronounce aftereffect?
Aftereffect is pronounced /ˈɑːftəɹ.ɪˌfɛkt/ (UK).
What is the plural of aftereffect?
The plural of aftereffect is aftereffects.

Words near aftereffect in the dictionary

  1. afterdinner
  2. afterdischarge
  3. afterdischarges
  4. afterdrop
  5. afterdrops
  6. aftereffect
  7. aftereffects
  8. afteregg
  9. aftereggs
  10. afterevent
  11. afterevents

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aftereffect (page history and authors); aftereffect (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اثر مابعد (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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