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A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation

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A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or follow it after an interval.

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  • SENSE
    A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
  • PRODUCIBILITY
    The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
  • NEGATIVE
    Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition. (more info) 1. Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing
  • FOLLOWING EDGE
    See ABOVE
  • PRODUCEMENT
    Production.
  • SENSATION
    An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable,
  • NEGATIVENESS; NEGATIVITY
    The quality or state of being negative.
  • REPRODUCTORY
    Reproductive.
  • CONTINUOUSLY
    In a continuous maner; without interruption. -- Con*tin"u*ous*ness, n.
  • SENSATIONALISM
    The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism. 2. The practice or methods of sensational
  • PRODUCTIVITY
    The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
  • PRODUCTUS
    An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
  • IMPRESSIONABLE
    Liable or subject to impression; capable of being molded; susceptible; impressible. He was too impressionable; he had too much of the temperament of genius. Motley. A pretty face and an impressionable disposition. T. Hook.
  • STIMULUS
    1. A goad; hence, something that rouses the mind or spirits; an incentive; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to labor and action. 2. That which excites or produces a temporary increase of vital action, either in the whole organism or
  • IMPRESSION
    The pressure of the type on the paper, or the result of such pressure, as regards its appearance; as, a heavy impression; a clear, or a poor, impression; also, a single copy as the result of printing, or the whole edition printed at a given time.
  • REPRODUCER
    One who, or that which, reproduces. Burke.
  • REPRODUCE
    To produce again. Especially: To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play. To cause to exist again. Those colors are unchangeable, and whenever all those rays with those their colors are mixed again
  • NEGATIVELY
    1. In a negative manner; with or by denial. "He answered negatively." Boyle. 2. In the form of speech implying the absence of something; -- opposed to positively. negatively, by showing wherein it does not consist, and positively, by
  • COMPLEMENTARY
    Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers. Complementary colors. See under Color. -- Complementary angles , two angles whose sum is 90°.
  • POSITIVELY
    In a positive manner; absolutely; really; expressly; with certainty; indubitably; peremptorily; dogmatically; -- opposed to negatively. Good and evil which is removed may be esteemed good or evil comparatively, and positively simply. Bacon. Give
  • INSENSE
    To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
  • APPOSITIVE
    Of or relating to apposition; in apposition. -- n.
  • OVERPRODUCTION
    Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
  • OPPOSITIVE
    Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
  • NONSENSE
    1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. 2. Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur,
  • PRESENSATION
    Previous sensation, notion, or idea. Dr. H. More.

 

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