Obs. [f. AFTER a. + -NESS.] The quality of being after or later; posteriority.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, iv. (1617), 48. Time is but a measure of mouing, wherein there is both a forenesse and an afternesse.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 14. To shut out formerness and afterness, which Gods everlastingness has not.
