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The afterthought important enough to survive the final edit.
means A piece of extra material added to the end of a document, often to fix an omission after the main text was already considered finished.
from Straight from Latin addendum, meaning 'a thing to be added' — the gerundive form of addere, 'to add.' That same root gives us 'add' and 'addition.' The plural, addenda, still shows up in formal writing for multiple afterthoughts, which is a tidy bit of grammar doing the humble work of saying 'oh, also this.'
- plural form
- addenda, if you want to sound insufferable
- legal use
- adds terms without reopening the whole contract
- psychology
- reveals what the author wished they'd said first