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Significance vs Hindsight - What's the difference?

significance | hindsight |

As nouns the difference between significance and hindsight

is that significance is the extent to which something matters; importance while hindsight is realisation or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred.

significance

English

(wikipedia significance)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The extent to which something matters; importance
    • As a juror your opinion is of great significance for the outcome of the trial.
  • *
    • Of more significance in the nature of branch development; in the Jubulaceae, as in the Porellaceae, branches are acroscopic and normally replace a ventral leaf lobe.
  • Meaning.
    • the significance of a gesture

    See also

    * Significance level (statistics). * Statistical significance.

    hindsight

    English

    (split)

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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