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Hindsight often refers to a lesson learned from something going wrong. Billy Wilder, the American movie director, once commented wistfully, “Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.” It's much easier to see clearly after something happened than before. Definitions of hindsight. noun. understanding the nature of an event after it has happened.
Hindsight definition: recognition of the realities, possibilities, or requirements of a situation, event, decision etc., after its occurrence.. See examples of HINDSIGHT used in a sentence.
3 days ago · Hindsight is the ability to understand and realize something about an event after it has happened, although you did not understand or realize it at the time. With hindsight, we'd all do things differently.
the ability to understand an event or situation only after it has happened: With hindsight, I should have taken the job. (Definition of hindsight from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
[uncountable] the understanding that you have of a situation only after it has happened and that means you would have done things in a different way With hindsight it is easy to say they should not have released him. What looks obvious in hindsight was not at all obvious at the time.
wisdom or knowledge got only after something ( usually bad) has happened. In hindsight, we should have acted differently.
Britannica Dictionary definition of HINDSIGHT. [noncount] : the knowledge and understanding that you have about an event only after it has happened. It's easy for us to say that the war was wrong, but we have the advantage/benefit of hindsight.
