hindthought
English
Etymology
From hind + thought.
Pronunciation
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Noun
hindthought (countable and uncountable, plural hindthoughts)
- Consideration or questioning of events or decisions after they have occurred.
- 1911, Frederick Frye Rockwell, Home Vegetable Gardening, →ISBN:
- Forethought, however, is much more satisfactory than hindthought.
- 1995, Europe Versus Intolerance, →ISBN, page 233:
- It is done almost automatically, without hindthought, and such a press exists in other countries too.
- 2007, Raymond Rodrigues, Memoir of a Green Mountain Boy, →ISBN:
- “Blind obedience to a government without forethought or, in your case, even hindthought is an abomination to free thought,” said Ethan, smiling.
- 2015, Rudolph Binion, Frau Lou: Nietzsche's Wayward Disciple, →ISBN, page 98:
- And if I understand you at all: these are all voluntary and self-imposed tendencies with you—for as much as they are not symptoms (about which I have a heap of painful hindthoughts).
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Antonyms
- forethought
See also
- hindsight
- second thoughts