afterwardsness

== English == === Alternative forms === afterwardness === Etymology === From 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. === Noun === afterwardsness (uncountable) (psychoanalysis) The concept that an earlier event in one's life can later acquire a meaning. ==== Translations ====