retrospect

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   contemplation of things past

   in retrospect

2. 2
   noun

   Consideration of past times.

   My mind, calmer and stronger now than last night, made for itself some imperious rules, prohibiting under deadly penalties all weak retrospect of happiness past; commanding a patient journeying through the wilderness of the present...

3. 3
   verb

   To look or refer back to; to reflect on.

   To give a correct idea of the circumstances which have gradually produced this conviction, it may be useful to retrospect to an early period.

4. 4
   verb

   look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin retrōspectum, from retrōspicio (“to look back at”), equivalent to retro- + -spect. Compare review.