afterlight

[ af-ter-lahyt, ahf- ]

noun

1. the light visible in the sky after sunset; afterglow.
2. a view of past events; retrospect.

Word History and Origins

Origin of afterlight¹

First recorded in 1890–95; after + light ¹

Example Sentences

My conduct, as well as yours, when we look at it calmly in an afterlight, was quite extraordinary.

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The deodars sank waist deep into filmy shadow, and the yellow afterlight lay silently among the branches.

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The sun had set some time since, but the landscape was still clear in the mellow afterlight.

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But it was evening now and the valley beneath us was brimmed up with the glow of the afterlight.

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Alppain had set, but the whole northern sky was plunged into the minor key by its afterlight.

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