hindsight
/ˈhʌɪn(d)sʌɪt
/noun [mass noun]
Understanding of a situation or event only after it has happened or developed: with hindsight, I should never have gone...
- Playing through Iron Storm was like looking back in hindsight on a historical event.
- With hindsight, we know how his moral instinct trumped the evidence for the war and its legality.
- Many times I look back in hindsight and think of how I should have handled a situation.