after-imagen.

1821 Lady Morgan Italy I. 87 Probably the model lay in the painter's heart, drawn by love's ‘own sweet and cunning hand’ and some beauty, ‘loveliest in tears’, lent a type to the young imagination, which no after-image of loveliness could ever efface.

1840 C. L. Eastlake tr. J. W. von Goethe Theory Colours 91 To these the secondary images may be opposed as derived images, which remain in the organ when the object itself is taken away; those apparent after-images [Ger. Schein- und Gegenbilder], which have been circumstantially treated of in the doctrine of physiological colours.

1874 J. Sully Sensation & Intuition iii. 41 Plateau sought to determine the time during which this after-image (Nachbild) continues in decreasing intensity.

1879 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon (at cited word) After-images may also be experienced in the case of smells, tastes, tones, and impressions of contact.

1889 G. B. Shaw in Eng. Illustr. Mag. Oct. 53 The after-image of the lyric drama witnessed is deeply engraved in the memory, aural and visual.

1895 E. C. Sanford Course Exper. Psychol. i. 6 After-images of Touch.

1944 L. Mumford Condition of Man viii. 298 In this passage, the reader will hear echoes, or rather see after-images.

1985 M. Atwood Handmaid's Tale (1988) i. i. 3 I could smell, faintly like an afterimage, the pungent scent of sweat.

1998 J. Barnes England, England (1999) 6 When you woke all you had was a memory of having been abandoned,..and sometimes not even that, but a fading after-image of the emotion stirred by such events.

2003 Smithsonian May 92/2 When you close your eyes, the afterimages are so intense that your eyes still seem to be open.