All aftereffect synonyms

noun aftereffect

• conclusion — When you come to a conclusion, you decide that something is true after you have thought about it carefully and have considered all the relevant facts.
• result — to spring, arise, or proceed as a consequence of actions, circumstances, premises, etc.; be the outcome.
• effect — something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
• follow-up — the act of following up.
• realization — the making or being made real of something imagined, planned, etc.
• impact — the striking of one thing against another; forceful contact; collision: The impact of the colliding cars broke the windshield.
• reaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
• effect — something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
• repercussion — an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action: The repercussions of the quarrel were widespread.
• issue — the act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution: the issue of food and blankets to flood victims.
• fallout — the settling to the ground of airborne particles ejected into the atmosphere from the earth by explosions, eruptions, forest fires, etc., especially such settling from nuclear explosions (radioactive fallout) Compare rainout.
• analogy — If you make or draw an analogy between two things, you show that they are similar in some way.
• development — Development is the gradual growth or formation of something.
• ramification — the act or process of ramifying.
• outcome — a final product or end result; consequence; issue.
• response — an answer or reply, as in words or in some action.
• case — A particular case is a particular situation or incident, especially one that you are using as an individual example or instance of something.
• contingency — A contingency is something that might happen in the future.
• probability — the quality or fact of being probable.
• goings-on — conduct or behavior, especially when open to criticism: We had never seen such goings-on as at the last dance.
• headache — a pain located in the head, as over the eyes, at the temples, or at the base of the skull.
• by-product — A by-product is something which is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
• decision — When you make a decision, you choose what should be done or which is the best of various possible actions.
• series — a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession; sequence.
• gist — the main or essential part of a matter: What was the gist of his speech?
• thrust — to push forcibly; shove; put or drive with force: He thrust his way through the crowd. She thrust a dagger into his back.
• substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
• meat — the flesh of animals as used for food.
• pith — Botany. the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.
• being — Being is the present participle of be1.
• actualization — the act or process of actualizing.
• consequences — a game in which each player writes down a part of a story, folds over the paper, and passes it on to another player who continues the story. After several stages, the resulting (nonsensical) stories are read out
• remainder — something that remains or is left: the remainder of the day.
• residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
• residuum — the residue, remainder, or rest of something.
• sequence — the following of one thing after another; succession.
• outgrowth — a natural development, product, or result: to consider truancy an outgrowth of parental neglect.
• sequel — a literary work, movie, etc., that is complete in itself but continues the narrative of a preceding work.
• payback — the period of time required to recoup a capital investment.
• upshot — the final issue, the conclusion, or the result: The upshot of the disagreement was a new bylaw.
• spin-off — Commerce. a process of reorganizing a corporate structure whereby the capital stock of a division or subsidiary of a corporation or of a newly affiliated company is transferred to the stockholders of the parent corporation without an exchange of any part of the stock of the latter. Compare split-off (def 3), split-up (def 3).
• follow-up — the act of following up.
• waves — a member of the Waves.
• culmination — Something, especially something important, that is the culmination of an activity, process, or series of events happens at the end of it.
• induction — the act of inducing, bringing about, or causing: induction of the hypnotic state.
• result — to spring, arise, or proceed as a consequence of actions, circumstances, premises, etc.; be the outcome.
• precipitate — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
• inference — the act or process of inferring.
• denouement — In a book, play, or series of events, the denouement is the sequence of events at the end, when things come to a conclusion.
• corollary — A corollary of something is an idea, argument, or fact that results directly from it.