a look in the past : or IN the terms of vocabulation explaining a diverse integration of a view of past opinons thoughts experiences; or as well as a rewind of past or before - the past the remembered or the occured
for example the clothing designer Gianni versace had a tenous look about him thus reflecting his retrospective personality and abilities of his past
by jon Q!!! August 8, 2008
Get the retrospective mug.- Jane: Bob, you look terrible! You should have stayed at home today.
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by AustralianWorkEthic April 20, 2010
Get the retrospective sickie mug.Ah damn, I could've just told him "well at least my mother isn't a whore." Now it's just a retrospective rek
by SMLJRON July 25, 2018
Get the retrospective rek mug.a dutch idiom about looking back on one's past. It is often characterized by focusing on the previously menial parts of life and seeing the greater value in them. Historically, this was used in the US back where many of the dutch people felt home sick and were often months from visiting home once again. Although it has mostly been left to the trash bins of society, it's a worthwhile tid bit
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by an actual anteater March 26, 2020
Get the retrospective remoulade mug.Retrospective falsification is the unconscious distortion of past experiences to conform to a person's needs in the present. Human memory is very malleable and can easily be hidden or distorted for any number of reasons. For example, an adult suddenly "remembers" being sexually abused as a child.
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Get the retrospective falsification mug.Theory of retrospective return; when one purchases a good from an auction, online or not, in the view that should the person ever require that item in the future, he quite possibly purchased it at a price well below market or retail price. Therefore making a retrospective return.
James buys 65 fun size garden gnomes because they were only $15 in an online auction. Several weeks later, James is held hostage and his captors demand 65 fun size garden gnomes. Fun size garden gnomes retail for $2 each. The Theory of retrospective return demonstrates that James made a return of $115.
by benjamin g October 15, 2008
Get the Theory of retrospective return mug.A more common memory or cognitive bias is rosy retrospection, which is the tendency to remember and recollect events more favorably than when they occurred. It is related to the popular idiom “to see through rose-colored glasses.” So it is basically remembering the past as more positive than it was in reality.
Remember how when we worked in the shipping/receiving department at Menards and we would get in 6 DC trucks a day, then we would get Jeldwen with 200 windows, then we would get a garage door truck, and then appliances would come and we would have to put away fifty appliances in the racks with the Joe. Buliding materials would write picking tickets for stuff that was right in front of their desk. So we would have to walk all the way there then all the way back to door 10 with the stuff. Every customer that needed help would say they are injured so they need us to load up their stuff while they watch. We would get fucked so hard every day and then they would nominate the team member of the week and it would always be someone from the sales floor that didn't have to get fucked as hard as we did. Man, those were the good old days!
Dude, isn't that rosy retrospection
Dude, isn't that rosy retrospection
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