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after-thinker
after-thinker n. 
/ˈaftəˌθɪŋkə/,
Brit. /ˈɑːftəˌθɪŋkə/
, /ˈɑːftəˌθɪŋkə//ˈaftəˌθɪŋkə/U.S. /ˈæftərˌθɪŋkər/
a person who thinks chiefly or only about events in the past.Frequently used as an epithet for the demigod Epimetheus (see quot. 1846); cf. Prometheus n./ˈæftərˌθɪŋkər/ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > [noun] > one who looks back
reviewer1642
reminiscencer1828
after-thinker1846
reminiscer1908
the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [noun] > one who ponders > about the past
after-thinker1846
1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. iii. 102 Promêtheus and Epimêtheus the fore-thinker and the after-thinker.
1905 C. H. Herford Robert Browning ix. 282 That logic of the imagination by which great poets often implicitly enunciate what the after-thinker slowly works out.
1993 S. A. Nigosian Zoroastrian Faith iv. 85 Since he is an after-thinker, he knows nothing of events to come.
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