afterviews

Noun

afterview (plural afterviews)

1. A looking back; a retrospective view or thought.
   • A Translator stands connected with the original Author by a certain law of subordination, which makes it more decorous to point out excellencies than defects: indeed he is not likely to be a fair judge of either. The pleasure or disgust from his own labour will mingle with the feelings that arise...1828, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, London: William Pickering, Volume 3, Translator’s Preface, The Death of Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller, pp. 252-253

   Synonyms:

   hindsight, reconsideration, retrospect

2. An image which persists or remains in negative after the original stimulation has ended.
   • England disappeared so quickly. Soon there was nothing but sea. […] I sat down to watch the spot where my country dissolved. It was there, etched on to my eyes like an afterview of the sun.2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 43, in Small Island, London: Review, page 406

   Synonyms:

   afterimage