What's the difference between retrospect and hindsight?

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Are they synonyms for looking back on the past that have separate contextual applications or do their meanings differ?

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You can look up their meanings in one or more online dictionaries. It might be interesting to hear about your conclusions.
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Hindsight always brings new understanding; retrospect may or may not.
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@michael.hor257k 'In hindsight/retrospect...' are both intros into new understanding to me. Can you give a sentence where one replaced with another shows this difference?
– Mitch
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Emma, there are no exact synonyms in life. If there are two different words for roughly the same thing, there are at least two contexts where the meaning and connotations will differ, even if only slightly. For most people (including myself), 'bucket' and 'pail' are as close to synonymous as possible. But if it is made of wood, I'd feel weird if it were called a 'wooden pail'. And fires aren't put out with a 'pail brigade'. And Jack and Jill didn't fetch a 'bucket of water'. That last may seem irrelevant, but fixed phrases grow from repeated verses and contribute to semantic drift.
– Mitch
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@Mitch "In retrospect" is not the same thing as "retrospect".
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Are they synonyms for looking back on the past that have separate contextual applications or do their meanings differ?

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You can look up their meanings in one or more online dictionaries. It might be interesting to hear about your conclusions.
– Mari-Lou A
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Hindsight always brings new understanding; retrospect may or may not.
– michael.hor257k
yesterday

@michael.hor257k 'In hindsight/retrospect...' are both intros into new understanding to me. Can you give a sentence where one replaced with another shows this difference?
– Mitch
yesterday

Emma, there are no exact synonyms in life. If there are two different words for roughly the same thing, there are at least two contexts where the meaning and connotations will differ, even if only slightly. For most people (including myself), 'bucket' and 'pail' are as close to synonymous as possible. But if it is made of wood, I'd feel weird if it were called a 'wooden pail'. And fires aren't put out with a 'pail brigade'. And Jack and Jill didn't fetch a 'bucket of water'. That last may seem irrelevant, but fixed phrases grow from repeated verses and contribute to semantic drift.
– Mitch
yesterday

@Mitch "In retrospect" is not the same thing as "retrospect".
– michael.hor257k
yesterday

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You can look up their meanings in one or more online dictionaries. It might be interesting to hear about your conclusions.
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Hindsight always brings new understanding; retrospect may or may not.
– michael.hor257k
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@michael.hor257k 'In hindsight/retrospect...' are both intros into new understanding to me. Can you give a sentence where one replaced with another shows this difference?
– Mitch
yesterday

Emma, there are no exact synonyms in life. If there are two different words for roughly the same thing, there are at least two contexts where the meaning and connotations will differ, even if only slightly. For most people (including myself), 'bucket' and 'pail' are as close to synonymous as possible. But if it is made of wood, I'd feel weird if it were called a 'wooden pail'. And fires aren't put out with a 'pail brigade'. And Jack and Jill didn't fetch a 'bucket of water'. That last may seem irrelevant, but fixed phrases grow from repeated verses and contribute to semantic drift.
– Mitch
yesterday

@Mitch "In retrospect" is not the same thing as "retrospect".
– michael.hor257k
yesterday

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You can look up their meanings in one or more online dictionaries. It might be interesting to hear about your conclusions.
– Mari-Lou A
yesterday

1

Hindsight always brings new understanding; retrospect may or may not.
– michael.hor257k
yesterday

@michael.hor257k 'In hindsight/retrospect...' are both intros into new understanding to me. Can you give a sentence where one replaced with another shows this difference?
– Mitch
yesterday

Emma, there are no exact synonyms in life. If there are two different words for roughly the same thing, there are at least two contexts where the meaning and connotations will differ, even if only slightly. For most people (including myself), 'bucket' and 'pail' are as close to synonymous as possible. But if it is made of wood, I'd feel weird if it were called a 'wooden pail'. And fires aren't put out with a 'pail brigade'. And Jack and Jill didn't fetch a 'bucket of water'. That last may seem irrelevant, but fixed phrases grow from repeated verses and contribute to semantic drift.
– Mitch
yesterday

@Mitch "In retrospect" is not the same thing as "retrospect".
– michael.hor257k
yesterday

You can look up their meanings in one or more online dictionaries. It might be interesting to hear about your conclusions.
– Mari-Lou A
yesterday

Hindsight always brings new understanding; retrospect may or may not.
– michael.hor257k
yesterday

@michael.hor257k 'In hindsight/retrospect...' are both intros into new understanding to me. Can you give a sentence where one replaced with another shows this difference?
– Mitch
yesterday

Emma, there are no exact synonyms in life. If there are two different words for roughly the same thing, there are at least two contexts where the meaning and connotations will differ, even if only slightly. For most people (including myself), 'bucket' and 'pail' are as close to synonymous as possible. But if it is made of wood, I'd feel weird if it were called a 'wooden pail'. And fires aren't put out with a 'pail brigade'. And Jack and Jill didn't fetch a 'bucket of water'. That last may seem irrelevant, but fixed phrases grow from repeated verses and contribute to semantic drift.
– Mitch
yesterday

@Mitch "In retrospect" is not the same thing as "retrospect".
– michael.hor257k
yesterday

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