Retrospection
[retrə(ʊ)'spekʃ(ə)n] or [,rɛtrə'spɛkʃən]
Definition
(noun.) memory for experiences that are past; 'some psychologists tried to contrast retrospection and introspection'.
(noun.) reference to things past; 'the story begins with no introductory retrospections'.
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Definition
(n.) The act, or the faculty, of looking back on things past.
Typist: Nola
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Looking back.
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Examples
- Thus long, I have cradled my heart in retrospection of past happiness, when hope was. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Education as Recapitulation and Retrospection. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was MEMORY--RETROSPECTION--wrought into visible, tangible form. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She had her own reasons for being less sanguine than ever in hopeful views of the future, less indulgent to pleasurable retrospections of the past. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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