hindsight

2 definitions • 3 examples

the ability to understand an event or situation only after it has happened:

with (the benefit/wisdom of) hindsight With (the benefit/wisdom of) hindsight, I should have taken the job.

in hindsight In hindsight, it would have been better to wait.

the ability to understand, after something has happened, why or how it was done and how it might have been done better:

They are ideas that, in hindsight, often seem hair-brained.