retrospection meaning

• Noun: retrospection  `retru'spekshun
  1. Reference to things past
     "the story begins with no introductory retrospections" 
  2. Memory for experiences that are past
     "some psychologists tried to contrast retrospection and introspection"

  Derived forms: retrospections

  See also: retrospect

  Type of: memory, mention, reference, remembering

Examples

1. discussions and retrospections on modernism in the new period
2. a retrospection on file administration in occupational hygiene
3. development and retrospection of health food
4. retrospection and prospect of the changes of the rural land system
5. the market for financial derivatives : a retrospection of past 10 years