hindsight

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English

Etymology

From hind +‎ sight, 19th c. Compare Latinate retrospect.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈhaɪn(d)saɪt/
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hindsight (countable and uncountable, plural hindsights)

  1. Realization or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred.
    You know what they say, hindsight is twenty-twenty.
    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 very differently!
    • 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 133:
      Hindsight is more easily acquired than foresight.
  2. (rare) The rear sight of a firearm.

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