Afterknowledge

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Knowledge acquired later, or after the event. uncountable

    "With the afterknowledge of history it is hard to understand why contemporaries did not, in 1964, interpret the march of events as we do now – as a process leading to inevitable breakdown in the seventies."

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"With the afterknowledge of history it is hard to understand why contemporaries did not, in 1964, interpret the march of events as we do now – as a process leading to inevitable breakdown in the seventies."

Etymology

From after- + knowledge.

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