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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A description of a past event that is written as though it were a prediction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Latin retrōder. English retro- Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh3- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh3tisder. Ancient Greek γνῶσῐς (gnôsĭs)der. English gnosis English retrognosis From retro- + gnosis.
