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retrospection

[ re-truh-spek-shuh n ]

/ ˌrɛ trəˈspɛk ʃən /

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noun

the action, process, or faculty of looking back on things past.

a survey of past events or experiences.

Origin of retrospection

First recorded in 1625–35; retrospect + -ion

Words nearby retrospection

retrorse, retroserrate, retroserrulate, retrosexual, retrospect, retrospection, retrospective, retrospective falsification, retrospectively, retrospondylolisthesis, retroussage

Example sentences from the Web for retrospection

The second half of the episode dove into the mandated 30 minutes of retrospection necessary for any series finale.

I Watched ‘Psych’ For 8 Years and All I Got Was This Lackluster Finale |Chancellor Agard |March 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
For two or three minutes the illusion remained, till it was banished by retrospection.

The Kellys and the O'Kellys |Anthony Trollope
A whole world of retrospection had been invoked by the merest accident.

The Count of Nideck |Ralph Browning Fiske
Now, as Doctor Joe paced the beach, he was thinking of these things and looking in retrospection upon his own life.

Grit A-Plenty |Dillon Wallace

Animation, retrospection, agitation chase from his seamed face all traces of drowsiness.

The New North |Agnes Deans Cameron
Those questions, and the retrospection back of them, were with him as he went upward into the mountains to the north.

Told In The Hills |Marah Ellis Ryan

British Dictionary definitions for retrospection

retrospection

/ (ˌrɛtrəʊˈspɛkʃən) /

noun

the act of recalling things past, esp in one's personal experience