Hindsight vs Memory - What's the difference?
hindsight | memory |
Realisation or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred
The rear sight of a firearm
(uncountable) The ability of an organism to record information about things or events with the facility of recalling them later at will.
* (rfdate) Albert Schweitzer
A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.
(computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).
The time within which past events can be or are remembered.
(attributive, of a material) which returns to its original
(obsolete) A memorial.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between hindsight and memory
is that hindsight is realisation or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred while memory is (uncountable) the ability of an organism to record information about things or events with the facility of recalling them later at will.hindsight
English
(split)Noun
(-)- 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!
Antonyms
* foresightDerived terms
* hindsightly * twenty-twenty hindsightmemory
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Alternative forms
* memorie (archaic)Noun
- Memory is a facility common to all animals.
- Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory .
- I have no memory of that event.
- This data passes from the CPU to the memory .
- in recent memory'''''; ''in living '''memory
- These weeds are memories of those worser hours.
