afterknowledge

afterknowledge (uncountable)

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

     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.

• hindsight