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hindsightism en · NOUN

Etymology

From hindsight + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A tendency to look at past events with the benefit of hindsight.
    • Yes, we must beware of hindsight-ism. But let us acknowledge that today, at least, we know that the lending industry from 2004 through 2006 was not just pushing it. It had become unhinged—institutionally corrupt, rotten, like a fish, from the head. 2014, Steve Schifferes, Richard Roberts, The Media and Financial Crises:
    • Social democrats' achievement in establishing a democratic republic has been rubbished by post-1933 hindsightism. 2017, John Callaghan, Nina Fishman, Ben Jackson, In search of social democracy, page 292: