afterviewn.
/ˈɑːftəvjuː/, /ˈaftəvjuː/, U.S. /ˈæftərˌvju/ The action or an act of reconsidering or reflecting on a past event, activity, etc.; a retrospective or subsequent view on or of something. Cf. fore-view n.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > [noun]
reminiscion1607
afterview1632
retro-aspect1638
retrospection1654
harking1885
reminiscing1895
time travelling1934
1632 J. Hayward in tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena Transl. to Rdr. sig. A5 What's once done and ended, Can ne're by after-view be well amended.
1660 Z. Crofton Αναληψις Ανεληϕθη 33 Can you not on second thoughts and an afterview see the goodness and usefulness of your daughter?
a1684 R. Leighton Pract. Comm. 1st Epist. Peter (1694) II. 71 They that know it in the sense of this after-view.., ask them what they think of it.
1728 Bp. P. Browne Procedure Human Understanding iii. vi. 421 The Perception of Sensation, with the after-View of our simple original Ideas is a kind of Intuitive Knowledge.
a1771 G. Sharpe Serm. on Var. Subj. (1772) vi. 94 Gratifications, which are..not only productive of immediate satisfaction, but pleasant on an after-view.
1800 S. T. Coleridge in tr. F. Schiller Death Wallenstein Pref. The feelings that arise from an afterview of the original.
1847 C. G. Finney Lect. Systematic Theol. II. li. 66 Metanoeo, to take an after view; or more strictly, to change one's mind as a consequence of..a second and more rational view of the subject.
1951 L. MacNeice tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust ii. ii. 204 The afterview of that sorrowful fearful night.
1973 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 67 1140/1 Diplomacy for the 70's: an afterview and appraisal.
1996 V. Tejera Amer. Mod. v. 207 For a pointed afterview of the ironies in the career of this logical constructionist and reductionist, see J. Agassi.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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