Retrospective vs. Retroactive

Retrospectiveadjective

Of, relating to, or contemplating the past.

Retrospectiveadjective

Looking backwards.

Retrospectiveadjective

Affecting or influencing past things; retroactive.

Retrospectivenoun

An exhibition of works from an extended period of an artist's activity.

Retrospectiveadjective

Looking backward; contemplating things past; - opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view.

Retrospectiveadjective

Having reference to what is past; affecting things past; retroactive; as, a retrospective law.

Retrospectivenoun

an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work

Retrospectiveadjective

concerned with or related to the past;

Retrospective

A retrospective (from Latin retrospectare, ), generally, is a look back at events that took place, or works that were produced, in the past. As a noun, retrospective has specific meanings in medicine, software development, popular culture and the arts.

Retroactiveadjective

Extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions

Retroactiveadjective

Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective.

Retroactiveadjective

descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously

Retroactiveadjective

affecting things past;