Obvious vs Afterseen - What's the difference?
obvious | afterseen |
Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-17, volume=408, issue=8849, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= 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 obvious and afterseen
is that obvious is easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory while afterseen is seen after the fact; plainly evident; obvious.As a verb afterseen is
.obvious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Down towns, passage=It is not obvious , to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all. Crowds of people mean congestion and costly land and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land and labour.}}
Synonyms
* See also .Antonyms
* unobvious * non-obvious * subtleDerived terms
* obviously * obviousnessSee also
* plain * clear * evident * manifestExternal 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.