retrospection

Noun

Meaning

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

amendment remembrance study memory account mind recognition review improvement consciousness reflection revision modification recall retention

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Antonyms

nirvana fact basis proof ignorance negligence

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Hypernyms

memory reference mention remembering

Examples

We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,our retrospection will be all to the future. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers. Fred Brooks

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. Friedrich Schlegel

We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection. Anaïs Nin

We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection. Sue Monk Kidd

some psychologists tried to contrast retrospection and introspection Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

retrosome retrospect retrospectical retrospective retrospective analysis retrospective determinism