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hindsight

noun
/ˈhaɪn(d)saɪt/

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from *sihti✻ — “seeing, sight”
  2. inherited from sihþ — “something seen; vision”
  3. inherited from sighte
  4. compounded as hindsight — “hind + sight”

Definitions

  1. Realization or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have…

    Realization or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred.

    • You know what they say, hindsight is twenty-twenty.
    • In hindsight, I realize that I should have studied harder for the exam.
    • Hindsight is more easily acquired than foresight.

  2. The rear sight of a firearm.

    • Holonym: iron sights

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Derived

hindsight is 20/20, hindsightism, hindsightly, in hindsight, twenty-twenty hindsight

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hindsight. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA