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    hindsight

    hindsight - Dictionary definition and meaning for word hindsight

    Definition
    (noun) understanding the nature of an event after it has happened
    Example Sentence
    • hindsight is always better than foresight
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for hindsight

Its can be remembered as sight to see behind in time to understand what has actually happened ....

see it as beHINDSIGHT.. foresight- seeing before occuring and Hindsight- seeing after occuring.

hind+ sight : hind means delay, so delay in sight , so delay in understanding the events

word starting with hind are actually starting with behind. example - hindmost, hindsight

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u are able to identify a car only when u see it form the backside...i.e u get to know abt sth only when it has passed..

hindsight=hind(back)+sight(to observe) means to observe, analyse and understand after things happened

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