Hindsight and Present

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Hindsight noun - Understanding the nature of an event after it has happened.

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Present and hindsight are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Present" instead a noun "Hindsight".

Present noun - The time currently existing or in progress.

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Hindsight and present are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hindsight" instead a noun "Present".

When a scene in a work set in the present day becomes this in hindsight, then you've got an Unintentional Period Piece.

Source: "Mister Sandman" Sequence
What she says makes no sense at the time, but in hindsight, most of it has come true by the story's "present".

Source: Fortune Teller
Foreshadowing: In hindsight, the arrival of the Royal Navy at the book's climax is predicted early in the book, though none present could have guessed the circumstances under which that would happen.

Source: Literature / Lord of the Flies

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