hindsight
noun/ˈhaɪn(d)saɪt/
Etymology From hind + sight, 19th c. Compare Latinate retrospect.
1
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.
1 more example
- Hindsight is more easily acquired than foresight.1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 133:
2
Rare The rear sight of a firearm.
- Holonym: iron sights
- Derived terms
- hindsight is 20/20, hindsightism, hindsightly, in hindsight, twenty-twenty hindsight
- Related terms
- afterknowledge, hindlook, retrospect