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A looking backwards
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retrospection
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Word definitions for retrospection in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retrospection \Re`tro*spec"tion\, n. The act, or the faculty, of looking back on things past.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, noun of action from past participle stem of Latin retrospicere (see retrospect ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. reference to things past; "the story begins with no introductory retrospections" memory for experiences that are past; "some psychologists tried to contrast retrospection and introspection"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The deliberate recall of past events
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But an important aspect of problem solving is retrospection . ▪ I was too bound up with the problems of the present moment to enjoy the luxury of retrospection . ▪ Preparing to write his great work of self-analysis and retrospection ...
Usage examples of retrospection.
Suffer me, then, to hope a kind amnesty may take place of retrospection, a clear, liberal, open forgiveness anticipate explanation and enquiry?
William James, for example, views introspection as a retrospection of a mental event held in short-term memory.
One might end his days here in serene retrospection, and more cheaply than in other places of fewer attractions, for it is all Past and no Future.
He sat bare-headed, the palms of his hands resting on the pommel of his saddle, his chin sunk in his black stock, his face in retrospection, the wind moving gently his great shock of voluminous white hair.
But what came most vividly to George's mind, during these retrospections, was the despairing face of his Aunt Fanny.