Usually means: Understanding past events after occurrence.
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▸ noun:  Realization or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred.
▸ noun:  (rare) The rear sight of a firearm.

Similar:
moment of clarity, retrovision, afterwit, realization, retrospection, perception, aftersense, bigger picture, aha moment, realizer, more...

Opposite:
foresight, prospectiveness, anticipation

Phrases:
Hindsight bias, 20 20 hindsight, 20-20 hindsight, twenty-twenty hindsight, twenty twenty hindsight, more...

Adjectives:
historical, perfect, such, only, much, little, considerable, critical, century, mere, modern

Colors:
    silver,     gray,     charcoal,     smoke,     gunmetal,     platinum,     nickel,     shadow



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Similar:
moment of clarity, retrovision, afterwit, realization, retrospection, perception, aftersense, bigger picture, aha moment, realizer, more...

Opposite:
foresight, prospectiveness, anticipation

Phrases:
Hindsight bias, 20 20 hindsight, 20-20 hindsight, twenty-twenty hindsight, twenty twenty hindsight, in hindsight, it only appears in hindsight, opposite of hindsight, wishing i had hindsight, more...

Adjectives:
historical, perfect, such, only, much, little, considerable, critical, century, mere, modern

Colors:
    silver,     gray,     charcoal,     smoke,     gunmetal,     platinum,     nickel,     shadow



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