'Retrospection' definitions:
Definition of 'retrospection'
(from WordNet)
noun
Reference to things past; "the story begins with no introductory retrospections"
noun
Memory for experiences that are past; "some psychologists tried to contrast retrospection and introspection"
Definition of 'Retrospection'
From: GCIDE
- Retrospection \Re`tro*spec"tion\, n. The act, or the faculty, of looking back on things past. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'retrospection'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- commitment to memory,
- exercise of memory,
- flashback,
- hindsight,
- learning by heart,
- looking back,
- memoir,
- memorization,
- memorizing,
- memory,
- recall,
- recalling,
- recollecting,
- recollection,
- reconsideration,
- reexperiencing,
- reflection,
- reliving,
- remembering,
- remembrance,
- reminiscence,
- retrospect,
- review,
- revision,
- revival,
- rote,
- rote memory,
- study,
- youth