retrospect
He is a man of action, not retrospection.
In rare moments of retrospection , my mother would tell us about her childhood.
Her message was filled with retrospection but largely devoid of emotion.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Remembering, reminding and reminders
aide-mémoire
annal
awaken someone to something
be engraved on someone's memory/mindidiom
be etched on/in someone's memoryidiom
commit
echo
if my memory serves me rightidiom
imprint
in commemoration of someone/something
indelible
jog someone's memoryidiom
recall
remind
remind someone of something/someone
reminder
reminisce
reminiscence
shade
stamp

Examples of retrospection

retrospection
Retrospection techniques such as questionnaires, stimulated recall and interviews provide opportunities for listeners to recall the listening experience at a later moment in time.
The anthropological perspective does not refamiliarize the strange but rather increases it, substituting synchronic re-creation for diachronic retrospection.
In setting up this exercise in disciplinary retrospection we were aware that another key voice, this time from the anglophone tradition, was missing.
They are a reflection of the perpetrators' self-image based on the desire for exculpation and tainted by retrospection.
The documentation of planning and other metacognitive strategies in this line of work has been possible through the use of retrospection.
The later development of social science stems in part from the steady impulse to separate the analytic mode of considering the past from retrospection.
Visions of the future are tempered by rhetorical retrospection.
However, the short-run impact of the fourth type (national retrospections) is not significant.
They retain the quality of eyewitness accounts, but they assume a distance between event and text that can be bridged only by retrospection.
Encompassing tests pitting personal expectations against personal retrospections are inconclusive, so therefore we caution that additional inquiry is in order.
Fictional retrospection and memorial retrospection were not the same.
There was no retrospection, and payments for children were deducted only from state benefits for children.
Such passages of critical retrospection are often missing in similar memoirs.
The retrospection of old age toward the past always assumes a certain discontinuity between old age and youth.
I find in their rhetoric an alternate tradition with a pedigree reaching far back into the more distant past, one emphasizing static retrospection and categorical morality.
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