aftereffect

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
22
Words With Friends
23
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ˈɑːftəɹ.ɪˌfɛkt/ (UK)
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/ˈɑːftəɹ.ɪˌfɛkt/ (UK) · /ˈæftəɹ.əˌfɛkt/ (US)

Definition of aftereffect

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

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

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Etymology

From after- + effect.

Words you can make from aftereffect

137 playable · top: AFFECTER (16 pts)

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8-letter words

2 words

7-letter words

1 word

6-letter words

18 words

5-letter words

23 words

4-letter words

43 words

3-letter words

38 words

2-letter words

11 words

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

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