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retrospective (adjective), more retrospective, most retrospective
Relating to something that happened in the past: The police issued a retrospective report about three trucks running into each other and causing the highway to be shut down for ten hours one day last week.
Referring to something in the past.
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retrospective falsification (s) (noun), retrospective falsifications (pl)
An unconscious distortion of memories of past experiences so as to conform to some current emotional needs: Under stress, Susan's mother experienced retrospective falsification and appeared not to remember events as they actually had happened.
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Word Entries at Get Words: “retrospective”
retrospective, more retrospective, most retrospective
Looking back to something that existed in the past. (1)
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