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Hindsight vs Backcast - What's the difference?

hindsight | backcast |

As nouns the difference between hindsight and backcast

is that hindsight is realisation or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred while backcast is a cast or throw back.

As a verb backcast is

to identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.

As an adjective backcast is

retrospective.

As an adverb backcast is

long ago; in the past.

hindsight

English

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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

    backcast

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.
  • To change retrospectively; reverse.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cast or throw back.
  • A backward stroke, or a stroke driving one back.
  • (figuratively) Any discouragement or cause of relapse or failure.
  • Misfortune; reverse; reversal; a relapse in health or illness; moral backsliding.
  • Retrospect; hindsight.
  • backwater
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Retrospective.
  • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Long ago; in the past.
  • Anagrams

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