hindthought

plural hindthoughts

1. countableuncountableConsideration or questioning of events or decisions after they have occurred.

   Forethought, however, is much more satisfactory than hindthought.

   1911, Frederick Frye Rockwell, Home Vegetable Gardening, →ISBN

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   It is done almost automatically, without hindthought, and such a press exists in other countries too.

   1995, Europe Versus Intolerance, →ISBN, page 233

   “Blind obedience to a government without forethought or, in your case, even hindthought is an abomination to free thought,” said Ethan, smiling.

   2007, Raymond Rodrigues, Memoir of a Green Mountain Boy, →ISBN

   And if I understand you at all: these are all voluntary and self-imposed tendencies with you—for as much as they are not symptoms (about which I have a heap of painful hindthoughts).

   2015, Rudolph Binion, Frau Lou: Nietzsche's Wayward Disciple, →ISBN, page 98