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ret·ro·spec·tion    Audio Help   [re-truh-spek-shuhn] Pronunciation Key
–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    Audio Help   (rět'rə-spěkt')  Pronunciation Key 
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

noun
1. reference to things past; "the story begins with no introductory retrospections" 
2. memory for experiences that are past; "some psychologists tried to contrast retrospection and introspection" 

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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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