different between retrospect vs egotist

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin retr?spectum, from retr?spicio (“to look back at”), equivalent to retro- +? -spect Compare review.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???t?o?sp?kt/

Noun

retrospect (plural retrospects)

1. Consideration of past times.
   • 1853, Charlotte Bronte, "Villette":

     My mind, calmer and stronger now than last night, made for itself some imperious rules, prohibiting under deadly penalties all weak retrospect of happiness past; commanding a patient journeying through the wilderness of the present...

   • 1976, Terry Kay, The Year the Lights Came On, 1989 University of Georgia Press edition, ?ISBN, page 298:

     Whether, like Colin, in retrospect Willie Lee and Baptist would feel that what has vanished was greater than what was achieved, is not something we can predict.

   Antonym: prospect

Derived terms

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Verb

retrospect (third-person singular simple present retrospects, present participle retrospecting, simple past and past participle retrospected)

1. To look or refer back to; to reflect on.
   • 1800: Alexander Hamilton, Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq. President of the United States - To give a correct idea of the circumstances.., it may be useful to retrospect to an early period.

See also

• hindsight
• review

Anagrams

• protecters, reprotects

English

Etymology

ego + t (“inserted to avoid hiatus, or after the analogy of dramatist, epigrammatist, etc.”) +? -ist

Noun

egotist (plural egotists)

1. A person who talks excessively about themself.
2. A person who believes in his or her own importance or superiority.
3. (nonstandard, by confusion of the similar words) An egoist (advocate of egoism).

Derived terms

• egotistic

Related terms

• egotism
• egotistical

Translations

Further reading

• egotist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• egotist in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• geitost

Romanian

Etymology

From French égotiste.

Adjective

egotist m or n (feminine singular egotist?, masculine plural egoti?ti, feminine and neuter plural egotiste)

1. egotistical

Declension