afterknowledge
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afterknowledge (uncountable)
- Knowledge acquired later, or after the event.
- 1980, W. M. Scammell, The International Economy since 1945, page 123:
- 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.