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Backside vs Hindsight - What's the difference?

backside | hindsight |

As nouns the difference between backside and hindsight

is that backside is the side of something that is opposite the front while hindsight is realisation or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred.

backside

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The side of something that is opposite the front.
    • The backside of the building faced an alley, and was covered in grime and scrawled graffiti.
  • The buttocks.
    • ''After riding the horse all day for the first time, I had painful blisters on my backside .
  • * 2014 , , " Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
    • There was a whiff of farce about Southampton’s second goal too, as, six minutes later, a bungled Sunderland pass ricocheted off Will Buckley’s backside to the feet of Dusan Tadic.

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    hindsight

    English

    (split)

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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!
  • The rear sight of a firearm

    • Antonyms

    * foresight

    Derived terms

    * hindsightly * twenty-twenty hindsight