What is another word for retrospectively?

Pronunciation: [ɹˌɛtɹə͡ʊspˈɛktɪvli] (IPA)

When we look back to analyze the past or review things that happened a while ago, we may use a variety of words instead of the word "retrospectively". Some of the synonyms we can use to convey the idea of reviewing what happened before include "historically", "in hindsight", "after the fact", or "looking back". We could also use "postmortem", "recapitulation", "reflection", "recounting", or "reviewing". These words are often used interchangeably with "retrospectively" depending on the context and the tone of the article or conversation. Regardless of the word choice, these synonyms facilitate the process of evaluating the past and learning from it.

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What are the hypernyms for Retrospectively?

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  • Other hypernyms:

    look back, analyze retrospectively, assess retrospectively, contemplate retrospectively, review retrospectively.

Usage examples for Retrospectively

"Although," he says retrospectively, "I am one of those who have worked much at mathematics, I have none the less meditated upon philosophy from my youth up; for it always seemed to me that there was a possibility of establishing something solid in philosophy by clear demonstrations.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry
These considerations are of considerable interest when we apply them retrospectively.
"The Story of the Heavens"
Robert Stawell Ball
"I hate men," announced Mrs. Medcroft, retrospectively.
"The Husbands of Edith"
George Barr McCutcheon

Famous quotes with Retrospectively

  • My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history.
    Lawrence R. Klein
  • Seeking an English equivalent for peinture relative, Fritz Glarner settled on the term 'relational painting' towards the end of 1946, which he applied retrospectively to some of his earlier paintings and all his subsequent works. It was a term that suited the kind of abstract painting he pursued, focused on relating geometric shapes and ground through colour in ways which would make shape and ground alternate to produce what he called 'pumping planes'. While acknowledging the influence of Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), with whom he was closely associated in New York, Glarner replaced the balancing of horizontality and verticality achieved in Mondrian's painting with interlocking rectangles and wedges that expand out towards the edges of the canvas.
    Dore Ashton
  • [E]conomics is a narrative discipline, and explanations are easy to fit retrospectively. (page 257)
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Rosemary’s reputation was known; he would, by obscure logic, become retrospectively a cuckold.
    Anthony Burgess
  • Ideology critique raises a claim that it shares with hermeneutics, namely, the claim to understand an “author” better than he understands himself. What at first sounds arrogant about this claim can be methodologically justified. Others often really do perceive things about me that escape my attention—and conversely. They possess the advantage of distance, which I can profit from only retrospectively through dialogic mirroring. This, of course, would presuppose a functioning dialogue, which is precisely what does not take place in the process of ideology critique. An ideology critique that does not clearly accept its identity as satire can, however, easily be transformed from an instrument in the search for truth into one of dogmatism. All too often, it interferes with the capacity for dialogue instead of opening up new paths for it.
    Peter Sloterdijk

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