I'm sure I'm the only one; my rememberer is strange it goes way back, as do I, and clearly recalls stuff people said verbatum, but can't remember much of this last year but 50 years from now I guess I will. And the things it wants me to think about are what I wish I could forget!ret·ro·spect (rtr-spkt)
n.
A review, survey, or contemplation of things in the past.
v. ret·ro·spect·ed, ret·ro·spect·ing, ret·ro·spects
v.intr.
1. To contemplate the past.
2. To refer back.
v.tr.
To look back on or contemplate (things past).
Idiom:
in retrospect
Looking backward or reviewing the past.
[From Latin *retrspectus, past participle of retrspicere, to look back at : retr-, retro- + specere, to look at; see spek- in Indo-European roots.]
retro·spection n.
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