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0 thinking about what did not happen but could have happened, or relating to this kind of thinking:
Thoughts about how an embarrassing event might have turned out differently are known to psychologists as counterfactual thinking.
1 something such as piece of writing or an argument that considers what would have been the result if events had happened in a different way to how they actually happened: