Hindsight

Noun

 * 1) Realisation or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred
 * When you read "Seven Little Rabbits" at age 6 and read it again 15 years later, the hindsight you've developed in the time between will make you look at and think of the book much differently than you did the first time!
 * 1) The rear sight of a firearm

Antonyms

 * foresight

Derived terms

 * twenty-twenty hindsight

Thesaurus
commitment to memory, exercise of memory, flashback, learning by heart, looking back, memoir, memorization, memorizing, recall, recalling, recollecting, recollection, reconsideration, reflection, remembering, remembrance, reminiscence, retrospect, retrospection, review, rote, rote memory, study

Etymology
From hind: + sight:

Translations

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 * Japanese: 後知恵（あとぢえ, ato jie）
 * Russian: взгляд в прошлое
 * Swedish: efterklokhet


 * Finnish: jälkikäteen ajateltuna
 * French: avec le recul, rétrospectivement


 * German: im Nachhinein
 * Swedish: i efterhand