insight
English
/ˈɪnsaɪt/
noun
Definitions
- A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; frequently used with into.
- Power of acute observation and deduction
- (marketing) Knowledge (usually derived from consumer understanding) that a company applies in order to make a product or brand perform better and be more appealing to customers
- Intuitive apprehension of the inner nature of a thing things; intuition.
- (artificial intelligence) An extended understanding of a subject resulting from identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario.
- (psychiatry) An individual's awareness of the nature and severity of one's mental illness.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English insight affix from English sight inherited from Old English insiht (argument, narrative, account) inherited from Proto-Germanic *insahtiz (account, narrative, story, argument).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*insahtiz
Gloss
account, narrative, story, argument
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- backsight English
- blindsight English
- bombsight English
- boresight English
- daysight English
- desight English
- eyesight English
- farsight English
- foresight English
- gunsight English
- hindsight English
- insightful English
- insightfully English
- insightfulness English
- insightless English
- insightlessness English
- mindsight English
- missight English
- noninsightful English
- onsight English
- outsight English
- oversight English
- oversightly English
- rearsight English
- resight English
- see English
- sight English
- sight-reader English
- sightability English
- sightable English
- sighten English
- sighter English
- sightful English
- sightholder English
- sighthole English
- sighthound English
- sightless English
- sightline English
- sightly English
- sightproof English
- sightscreen English
- sightseeing English
- sightseer English
- sightsman English
- sightwise English
- supersight English
- uninsightful English
- unsight English
- unsightable English
- Einsicht German
- Sicht German
- einsichtig German
- in Dutch, Flemish
- inzicht Dutch, Flemish
- zicht Dutch, Flemish
- innsikt Norwegian Bokmål
- *insahtiz Proto-Germanic
- in Swedish
- insikt Swedish
- sikt Swedish
- innsikt Norwegian Nynorsk
- insiht Old English
- seht Old English
- insight Middle English
- siȝht Middle English
- aktindsigt Danish
- indsigt Danish
- 𐌹𐌽𐍃𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 Gothic
- Insicht German Low German
- insichtig German Low German
- see
- sight
- unsight
- onsight
- sighten
- desight
- sighter
- sightly
- resight
- daysight
- sightful
- eyesight
- farsight
- gunsight
- missight
- outsight
- oversight
- boresight
- foresight
- backsight
- sightsman
- mindsight
- hindsight
- sightable
- sighthole
- sightless
- sightseer
- sightline
- sightwise
- rearsight
- bombsight
- supersight
- sightproof
- blindsight
- sighthound
- insightful
- sightseeing
- unsightable
- insightless
- sightholder
- sightscreen
- oversightly
- sight-reader
- sightability
- insightfully
- uninsightful
- noninsightful
- insightfulness
- insightlessness