hindsight.
Realization or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred.
Meaning & usage
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.
The rear sight of a firearm.
Where this word comes from
From hind + sight, 19th c. Compare Latinate retrospect.
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