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Retrospection

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The deliberate recall of past events

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act, or the faculty, of looking back on things past.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of looking back on things past; reflection on the past.

n. The faculty of looking back on the past: recollection.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. memory for experiences that are past

n. reference to things past

Word Usage

"As I, in retrospection, ponder those happy hours spent with Jack, Charmian and the Doctor during those three days so long ago, there comes the thought that in spite of Jack's happy and pleasant demeanor, that he was, in fact, a sicker man than his outward appearance revealed."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

remembering memory mention reference

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

view consideration reversion

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

excogitation indetermination conciousness half measure libration