Retroject
Verb
- To project into the past.
Example Sentences
“It’s easy to retroject your current adult wisdom onto mistakes you made when you were 16.”
“After a rough breakup, it’s tempting to retroject red flags that you didn’t see at the start.”
“You may want to retroject today’s social standards onto old movies, but they were made in a completely different cultural era.”
Word Origin
English, mid-19th century
Why this word?
They say hindsight is 20/20, which is an apt way of describing the word “retroject.” Coined in English from the pairing of “retro,” meaning “past,” and “ject,” as in “project,” it means “to reflect on the past using the knowledge of today.” It can be tempting to retroject on a past situation with regret, but it’s important to remember that you have handled each situation with the knowledge you had at the time.
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