Evident vs Afterseen - What's the difference?
evident | afterseen |
Obviously true by simple observation.
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=26 Seen after the fact; plainly evident; obvious.
* 1971 , Harold Fisch, Hamlet and the Word: the covenant pattern in Shakespeare :
* 2001 , United States, West Publishing Company, Edward Thompson Company, United States code annotated :
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As adjectives the difference between evident and afterseen
is that evident is evident, obvious while afterseen is seen after the fact; plainly evident; obvious.As verbs the difference between evident and afterseen
is that evident is while afterseen is .evident
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It was evident she was angry, after she slammed the door.
citation, passage=Maccario, it was evident , did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.}}
Derived terms
* self-evidentExternal links
* * ----afterseen
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- But this is not a foreseen design; it is an afterseen design.
- All inventions, once achieved, are obvious after one understands the field, and such "afterseen " obviousness does not blight patentability if inventor really has something new.