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ret⋅ro⋅spec⋅tion

  [re-truh-spek-shuhn]
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–noun
1. the action, process, or faculty of looking back on things past.
2. a survey of past events or experiences.
Origin:
1625–35; retrospect + -ion
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ret·ro·spect   (rět'rə-spěkt')   
n.  A review, survey, or contemplation of things in the past.
v.   ret·ro·spect·ed, ret·ro·spect·ing, ret·ro·spects

v.   intr.
  1. To contemplate the past.
  2. To refer back.
v.   tr.
To look back on or contemplate (things past).

[From Latin *retrōspectus, past participle of retrōspicere, to look back at : retrō-, retro- + specere, to look at; see spek- in Indo-European roots.]
ret'ro·spec'tion n.
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Retrospection

Re`tro*spec"tion\, n. The act, or the faculty, of looking back on things past.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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