afterimage
2
7.7
- noun
- /ˈæftərˌɪmɪdʒ/
- Specialized
- Sometimes when the light disappears, an afterimage remains, just for a moment.
Examples
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Even with my eyes closed, I saw her face, an afterimage scratched in the periphery of my vision.
Fiction book (1994) -
The afterimages of the Dream added to his apprehension as he hurried along the dog's trail.
Fiction book (1992) -
I also get afterimages if I look at lights, or even sometimes just white things.
Blog text (4) -
Even through my closed lids, the flash of the powder left an afterimage.
Fiction book (1994) -
The white light faded except for the afterimage burned across Rand's vision.
Fiction book (1991) -
My wife would only say that he had had bad eyes, had had surgery for cataracts, and that the afterimage of a camera flash stayed with him for days.
Fiction book (1993) -
The glare left afterimages when he blinked.
Fiction book (1996) -
Off to the north and west, the lightning flashed, lighting the cloudscape and the ground and leaving a purple afterimage burned into my eyes.
Fiction book (1999) -
I closed my eyes and saw the afterimages of a ship's waveform disintegration, translated into images the human mind could interpret.
Fiction book (2002) -
When he turned away, the afterimage was slow to fade.
Synonyms
4
3.8
A picture in your mind of something you have seen
1
7.5
A picture in your mind you form when you see something
A taste, smell, or sight that continues after the thing that caused it ends
How Visible
- Specialized
2
7.7
498
3.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word afterimage comes from the parts after ('after') and image ('picture'). So an afterimage is like a 'picture' that stays in your eyes after you look away.