hindsightism

English

Etymology

hindsight +‎ -ism

Noun

hindsightism (uncountable)

1. A tendency to look at past events with the benefit of hindsight.
   • 2014, Steve Schifferes, Richard Roberts, The Media and Financial Crises:

     Yes, we must beware of hindsight-ism. But let us acknowledge that today, at least, we know that the lending industry from 2004 through 2006 was not just pushing it. It had become unhinged—institutionally corrupt, rotten, like a fish, from the head.

   • 2017, John Callaghan, Nina Fishman, Ben Jackson, In search of social democracy, page 292:

     Social democrats' achievement in establishing a democratic republic has been rubbished by post-1933 hindsightism.