retrospection

nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Retrospection is looking back over what has already happened. A moment of retrospection.

It reorders events into a story, which is useful and not the same as remembering. Retrospection makes everything look more inevitable than it was at the time.

Definitions of retrospection

1nounretrospectionLooking back over what has already happened.C2
“The retrospection in the last chapter explained everything.”

retrospection is a looking.

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retrospection in the wild

There is a predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy retrospection, for people to view the past more positively and the future more negatively.
Nostalgia
Rosy retrospection is a proposed psychological phenomenon of recalling the past more positively than it was actually experienced.
Rosy retrospection
Rosy retrospection is closely related to nostalgia, but differs in that it specifically involves perceiving the past as better than the present.
Rosy retrospection
In other words, it is a kind of self-observation, introspection and retrospection.
Diary studies in TESOL
Particularly, it is the predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy retrospection, to view the past more favourably and the future more negatively.
Declinism

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