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Future-Tense
adj. Sensing the judgment of your future self looking over your shoulder--chuckling at your well-laid plans or clutching their pearls at the risky move you're about to make--which leaves you faintly wary of their opinion, even though you know they'd take your place in a heartbeat.
Etymology
From future (the grammatical tense) + tense.
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