afterwardsness
The concept that an earlier event in one's life can later acquire a meaningThe concept that an earlier event in one's life can later acquire a meaning.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)The concept that an earlier event in one's life can later acquire a meaning.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
From afterwards + -ness. Coined by Jean Laplanche in his 1998 work Essays on Otherness, asFrom afterwards + -ness. Coined by Jean Laplanche in his 1998 work Essays on Otherness, as a translation of Sigmund Freud's German term Nachträglichkeit, on the model of the French translation après-coup.
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable