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Hindsight vs Aftersee - What's the difference?

hindsight | aftersee |

As a noun hindsight

is realisation or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred.

As a verb aftersee is

(transitive|uncommon|obsolete) to see or witness after the fact or event; see in hindsight or retrospectively.

hindsight

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Noun

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  • 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

    aftersee

    English

    Verb

  • (transitive, uncommon, obsolete) To see or witness after the fact or event; see in hindsight or retrospectively.
  • *1847 , Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Memoirs of the life and times of Sir Christopher Hatton :
    • [...] of Durham if he will come, or send his brother to enter as one authorized for such a matter, and so to carry it away without delay; and cannot Mr. Cox see, or foresee, or aftersee what cause or colour might work such alteration?
  • *1849 , Neil Walker, Thomas Craddock, The history of Wisbech, and the fens :
    • It is very different to foresee and aftersee .

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