"backward-lookingness" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: backward-looking + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|backward-looking|ness}} backward-looking + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} backward-lookingness (uncountable)
  1. the quality or state of being backward-looking Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-backward-lookingness-en-noun-ClxrdvC2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness

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          "text": "In a sense, forward-looking monetary policy is acting, in a second-best fashion, to counter a backward-looking externality elsewhere in the economy. It is interesting to explore this notion further by considering the trade-off between the degree of backward-lookingness on the part of the private sector in the course of their wage bargaining and the degree of forward-lookingness on the part of the central bank in the course of its interest rate setting.",
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