Hindsight vs Retrospection - What's the difference?
hindsight | retrospection |
Realisation or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred
The rear sight of a firearm
As nouns the difference between hindsight and retrospection
is that hindsight is realisation or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred while retrospection is the deliberate recall of past events.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!