NOUN (1)

1. an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work;


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. concerned with or related to the past;
- Example: "retrospective self-justification"

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Retrospective \Re`tro*spec"tive\, a. [Cf. F. r['e]trospectif.]
   1. Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to
      prospective; as, a retrospective view.
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            The sage, with retrospective eye.     --Pope.
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   2. Having reference to what is past; affecting things past;
      retroactive; as, a retrospective law.
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            Inflicting death by a retrospective enactment.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

retrospective
    adj 1: concerned with or related to the past; "retrospective
           self-justification" [ant: prospective]
    n 1: an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's
         life work