the ability to understand an event or situation only after it has happened: With (the benefit/wisdom of) hindsight, I should have taken the job. In hindsight, it would have been better to wait.
How do you use hindsight in a sentence?
Hindsight sentence example
- Hindsight bias was twice the size in the participants who saw the animation than in the participants who were shown diagrams. ...
- In hindsight , things could have gone better. ...
- But you know, the decision involves hindsight . ...
- In hindsight , she really didn't know any of them.
Is it on hindsight or in hindsight?
[...] (Summary: "in hindsight" is far more common.) I suspect that people who use "on" are thinking of it as a marker of time, and mean, roughly, "on looking back."
