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The requirement of electrical energy to power modern equipment and electronics is increasing day by day. This leads to the need for developing methods for generation and storage of electrical power which are highly efficient. Hence, a lot of research work is focused on the development of efficient energy storage materials. So that they can be utilized for various industrial applications. Modern electronic and electrical devices can be revolutionized by using dielectric based solid state capacitors. Among the popular dielectric materials, antiferroelectrics display higher energy density and higher power density as compared to their linear dielectric and ferroelectric counterparts. They also possess low dielectric loss, low remnant polarization, low coercive field, higher material efficiency and fast rate of discharging. Due to all these characteristics, antiferroelectric materials have a huge potential to be used in various energy storage applications. This review paper presents basic facts about antiferroelectric materials regarding their definition and energy storage behavior.