Aftermath
Aftermath noun - A condition or occurrence traceable to a cause.
Usage example: the surgery was successful, but she now had to deal with its aftermath: a huge bill
Consequence
Consequence noun - A condition or occurrence traceable to a cause.
Usage example: the flood was an inevitable consequence of the prolonged, heavy rains
Aftermath is a synonym for consequence in result topic. You can use "Aftermath" instead a noun "Consequence", if it concerns topics such as outcome, cause. popular alternative
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- event and aftermath
- event and consequence
- corollary and aftermath
- corollary and consequence
- upshot and aftermath
- upshot and consequence
- sequence and aftermath
- sequence and consequence
- issue and aftermath
- issue and consequence
- result and aftermath
- result and consequence
- end and aftermath
- end and consequence
How words are described
| particular | particular aftermath | particular consequence |
| usual | usual aftermath | usual consequence |
| common | common aftermath | common consequence |
| direct | direct aftermath | direct consequence |
| Other adjectives: painful, logical, bad, horrible, distant, disastrous, humorous, immediate, political, possible, apparent, resulting, devastating, long-term. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Humanity is shown to have largely abandoned organized religion prior to the events of the series as a consequence of World War III and its aftermath.
- Her death marked a Cerebus Syndrome moment in the strip's history (The strip started the transition to It's Walky in the immediate aftermath) and served to show that the gang's wacky hijinks were no longer consequence-free.
Source: Anyone Can Die / Web Comics
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