"afterknowledge" meaning in English

See afterknowledge in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: after- + knowledge Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|after|knowledge|}} after- + knowledge Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} afterknowledge (uncountable)
  1. Knowledge acquired later, or after the event. Tags: uncountable Related terms: hindsight
    Sense id: en-afterknowledge-en-noun-NWk9xm3C Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with after-

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          "ref": "1980, W. M. Scammell, The International Economy since 1945, page 123",
          "text": "With the afterknowledge of history it is hard to understand why contemporaries did not, in 1964, interpret the march of events as we do now – as a process leading to inevitable breakdown in the seventies.",
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