afterknowledge
nounEtymology From after- + knowledge.
1
Knowledge acquired later, or after the event.
- With the afterknowledge of history it is hard to understand why contemporaries did not, in 1964, interpret the march of events as we do now – as a process leading to inevitable breakdown in the seventies.1980, W. M. Scammell, The International Economy since 1945, page 123:
- Related terms
- hindsight