Definition of Insight

1. Noun. Clear or deep perception of a situation.

Exact synonyms: Penetration
Generic synonyms: Perception
Derivative terms: Penetrate

2. Noun. A feeling of understanding.
Exact synonyms: Perceptiveness, Perceptivity
Generic synonyms: Sensibility
Derivative terms: Perceptive, Perceptive, Perceptive

3. Noun. The clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation.
Exact synonyms: Brainstorm, Brainwave
Generic synonyms: Apprehension, Discernment, Savvy, Understanding
Specialized synonyms: Light, Revelation, Breakthrough, Discovery, Find, Flash
Derivative terms: Brainstorm

4. Noun. Grasping the inner nature of things intuitively.
Exact synonyms: Sixth Sense
Generic synonyms: Intuition

Definition of Insight

1. n. A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with into.

Definition of Insight

1. Noun. A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; frequently used with into. ¹

2. Noun. Power of acute observation and deduction; penetration; discernment; perception. ¹

3. Noun. (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 ¹

4. Noun. The act or result of apprehending the inner nature of things or of seeing intuitively ¹

5. Noun. (artificial intelligence) An extended understanding of a subject resulting from identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Insight

1. a perception of the inner nature of things [n -S]

Medical Definition of Insight

1. Self-understanding as to the motives and reasons behind one's own actions or those of another's. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Insight

insider dealing
insider information
insider trading
insiderdom
insiderish
insiderism
insiderness
insiders
insidery
insides
insidious
insidiously
insidiousness
insidiousnesses
insiduous
insight (current term)
insight learning
insightful
insightfully
insightfulness
insightless
insights
insigne
insignia
insignia of rank
insignias
insignificance
insignificances
insignificancy
insignificant

Literary usage of Insight

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"One of the questions remaining open is how far insight into the words of Jesus can be promoted by translation into the Syro-Chaldaic spoken dialect of ..."

2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Nothing in the whole of his works affords a more striking instance of his penetrating insight than this casual remark, recorded in the prefatory memoir ..."

3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"He then enters the first trance, and rising from it obtains insight into the ... This insight, however, is threefold: the insight into the constituents of ..."

4. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Joseph Jacobs (1892)
"... and if now and then one of the great consorts with him, it is less from pleasure in his sneers than from esteem for his insight. ..."

5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1901)
"... Sterne (1882) and Coleridge (1884) ; and he full of wit, pathos, and insight. It gives 8 better idea of the author's brilliancy and scholarship, ..."

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