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afterknowledge

afterknowledge noun: knowledge acquired later, or after the event.

Noun

afterknowledge (uncountable)

  1. Knowledge acquired later, or after the event.
    • 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.1980, W. M. Scammell, The International Economy since 1945, page 123

Origin of afterknowledge

From after- + knowledge.

Questions about afterknowledge

What does afterknowledge mean?
Afterknowledge means knowledge acquired later, or after the event.
What part of speech is afterknowledge?
Afterknowledge is a noun.

Words near afterknowledge in the dictionary

  1. afterimagery
  2. afterimages
  3. afterimpression
  4. afterimpressions
  5. afterings
  6. afterknowledge
  7. Afterlee
  8. Afterlehen
  9. Afterlehens
  10. afterlength
  11. afterlengths

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