aftereffect

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UK/ˈɑːftəɹ.ɪˌfɛkt/US/ˈæftəɹ.əˌfɛkt/

noun

Any delayed effect; an effect which is not immediately manifested.

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Meanings

nounaftereffect (plural aftereffects)

plural aftereffects · alternative after-effect

  1. Any delayed effect; an effect which is not immediately manifested.

    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
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    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, usually calm as a cucumber on the set, was now sweating and not calm and perhaps claustrophobic?

    2009, Kevin Glavin, “The Kali Club”, in Rock Star’s Rainbow, Irvine, Calif.: Kevin Glavin Publishing, →ISBN, pages 311–312

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ep
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂epó
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ep(o)teros
  4. Proto-Germanic*after
  5. Old Englishæfter
  6. Middle Englishafter
  7. Englishafter
  8. Old Englishæfter
  9. Old Englishæfter-
  10. Middle Englishafter-
  11. Englishafter-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
  13. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
  14. Proto-Italic*eks
  15. Latinex
  16. Latinex-
  17. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  18. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁k-
  19. Proto-Indo-European*dʰh₁kyéti
  20. Proto-Italic*θakjō
  21. Proto-Italic*fakjō
  22. Latinfaciō
  23. Latinefficiō
  24. Latineffectu
  25. Old Frencheffect
  26. Middle Englisheffect
  27. Englisheffect
  28. Englishaftereffect

From after- + effect.

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Translations

Bulgarian последица, последствие
  • последица (posledica)delayed effect
  • последствие (posledstvie)delayed effect
Catalan efecte
  • efectedelayed effect
Chinese Mandarin 餘波 /余波, 後效 /后效
  • 餘波 /余波 (yúbō)delayed effect
  • 後效 /后效 (hòuxiào)delayed effect
  • 影響 /影响 (yǐngxiǎng)delayed effect
  • 後果 /后果 (hòuguǒ)delayed effect
Danish eftervirkning
  • eftervirkningdelayed effect
Finnish jälkivaikutus
  • jälkivaikutusdelayed effect
French effet retardé
  • effet retardédelayed effect
German Nachwirkung
  • Nachwirkungdelayed effect
Italian strascico, conseguenza
  • strascicodelayed effect
  • conseguenzadelayed effect
  • effetto secondariodelayed effect
Japanese 後遺症, 余波
  • 後遺症 (kōishō)delayed effect
  • 余波 (yoha)delayed effect
Korean 후유증
  • 후유증 (huyujeung)delayed effect
Norwegian Bokmål ettervirkning
  • ettervirkningdelayed effect
Polish efekt, konsekwencja
  • efektdelayed effect
  • konsekwencjadelayed effect
  • następstwo n reperkusjadelayed effect
Portuguese efeito posterior, sequela
  • efeito posteriordelayed effect
  • sequeladelayed effect
  • pós-efeitodelayed effect
Spanish secuela, efecto
  • secueladelayed effect
  • efectodelayed effect
  • consecuenciadelayed effect
Cite this entry
APA

aftereffect. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aftereffect

MLA

“aftereffect.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aftereffect. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “aftereffect,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aftereffect.

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