Retrospect vs Flashback - What's the difference?
retrospect | flashback |
consideration of past times
* 1853 , , "Villette":
* 1976 , edition, ISBN 0820311286, page 298:
To look or refer back to; to reflect on
* 1804: Alexander Hamilton, Letter to John Adams (Bartlett) - To give a correct idea of the circumstances.., it may be useful to retrospect to an early period.
a dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative
(psychology) a vivid mental image of a past trauma, especially one that recurs
a similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug
the condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system
As nouns the difference between retrospect and flashback
is that retrospect is consideration of past times while flashback is a dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.As a verb retrospect
is to look or refer back to; to reflect on.retrospect
English
Noun
(en noun)- My mind, calmer and stronger now than last night, made for itself some imperious rules, prohibiting under deadly penalties all weak retrospect of happiness past; commanding a patient journeying through the wilderness of the present...
- Whether, like Colin, in retrospect Willie Lee and Baptist would feel that what has vanished was greater than what was achieved, is not something we can predict.