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afterwardsness

afterwardsness noun: the concept that an earlier event in one's life can later acquire a meaning.

Noun

afterwardsness (uncountable)

  1. The concept that an earlier event in one's life can later acquire a meaning.

Forms of afterwardsness

alternative formafterwardness

Origin of afterwardsness

From afterwards + -ness. Coined by Jean Laplanche in his 1998 work Essays on Otherness, as a translation of Sigmund Freud's German term Nachträglichkeit, on the model of the French translation après-coup.

Questions about afterwardsness

What does afterwardsness mean?
Afterwardsness means the concept that an earlier event in one's life can later acquire a meaning.
What part of speech is afterwardsness?
Afterwardsness is a noun.

Words near afterwardsness in the dictionary

  1. aftervisions
  2. afterwar
  3. afterward
  4. afterwardness
  5. afterwards
  6. afterwardsness
  7. afterwash
  8. afterwashes
  9. afterwave
  10. afterwaves
  11. afterwhile

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