afterview
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]afterview (plural afterviews)
- A looking back; a retrospective view or thought.
- Synonyms: hindsight, reconsideration, retrospect
- 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,[1]
- 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 from an afterview of the original.
- 1987, Allison Rossett, Training Needs Assessment - Page 104:
- A summary is a brief preview or afterview; it is many ideas, once over lightly. A summary of this book, for example, would present its three basic parts and list the major tools and techniques which are presented.
- 1993, Andrew Strathern, Landmarks: Reflections on Anthropology - Page viii:
- The afterview considers the outcome of my "restudy" of the papers in more detail, but two matters can be signaled early on.
- An image which persists or remains in negative after the original stimulation has ended.
- Synonym: afterimage
- Hypernym: after-impression
- 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 43, in Small Island[2], London: Review, page 406:
- 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.