Usually means: Response or reaction to past events.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. retroaction: Merriam-Webster
  2. retroaction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. retroaction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. retroaction: Collins English Dictionary
  5. retroaction: Wordnik
  6. retroaction: Wiktionary
  7. retroaction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. retroaction: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Retroaction, retroaction: Dictionary.com
  10. Retroaction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. retroaction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Retroaction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. retroaction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. retroaction: FreeDictionary.org
  15. retroaction: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. retroaction: Legal dictionary

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  1. retroaction: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. retroaction: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (retroaction)

▸ noun:  Any action that has an influence due to a past event
▸ noun:  An opposing action; a reaction

Similar:
retrocausality, repassion, retrogration, retrocalculation, retrocedence, retrogressiveness, retrogress, retrogradation, retroflexion, reversion, more...

Opposite:
proaction, preaction, anticipation

Types:
feedback, reaction, response, retaliation, revenge, more...

Adjectives:
negative, positive, greater, more, necessary, maximal, exceptional

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Similar:
retrocausality, repassion, retrogration, retrocalculation, retrocedence, retrogressiveness, retrogress, retrogradation, retroflexion, reversion, more...

Opposite:
proaction, preaction, anticipation

Types:
feedback, reaction, response, retaliation, revenge, more...

Adjectives:
negative, positive, greater, more, necessary, maximal, exceptional



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