Word Meanings - INSIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with into. He had an insight into almost all the secrets of state. Jortin. 2. Power of acute observation and deduction; penetration;

Additional info about word: INSIGHT

1. A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with into. He had an insight into almost all the secrets of state. Jortin. 2. Power of acute observation and deduction; penetration; discernment; perception. Quickest insight In all things that to greatest actions lead. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSIGHT)

• Discrimination
• Penetration
• sagacity
• acuteness
• nicety
• shrewdness
• judgment
• discernment
• insight
• distinction
• Intuition
• Instinct
• apprehension
• recognition
• Discernment
• observation
• discrimination
• sharpness

Related words: (words related to INSIGHT)

• JUDGMENT
  The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
• INTUITION
  1. A looking after; a regard to. What, no reflection on a reward! He might have an intuition at it, as the encouragement, though not the cause, of his pains. Fuller. 2. Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or
• INSTINCTION
  Instinct; incitement; inspiration. Sir T. Elyot.
• INSTINCT
  Urged or sas, birds instinct with life. The chariot of paternal deity . . . Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed By four cherubic shapes. Milton. A noble performance, instinct with sound principle. Brougham. (more info) instigate, incite;
• APPREHENSION
  1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped. 3. The act of grasping with the
• INTUITIONALISM
  The doctrine that the perception or recognition of primary truth is intuitive, or direct and immediate; -- opposed to sensationalism, and experientialism.
• NICETY
  1. The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.). The miller smiled of her nicety. Chaucer. 2. Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision. 3. A delicate expression, act,
• INSTINCTIVITY
  The quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct. Coleridge.
• DISCERNMENT
  1. The act of discerning. 2. The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness;
• DISTINCTION
  1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known. Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from
• SHARPNESS
  The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness.
• OBSERVATION CAR
  A railway passenger car made so as to facilitate seeing the scenery en route; a car open, or with glass sides, or with a kind of open balcony at the rear.
• ACUTENESS
  Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis. Syn. -- Penetration; sagacity; keenness; ingenuity; shrewdness; subtlety; sharp-wittedness. (more info) 1. The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.
• INSTINCTIVE
  Of or pertaining to instinct; derived from, or prompted by, instinct; of the nature of instinct; determined by natural impulse or propensity; acting or produced without reasoning, deliberation, instruction, or experience; spontaneous. "Instinctive
• OBSERVATIONAL
  Of a pertaining to observation; consisting of, or containing, observations. Chalmers.
• DISCRIMINATION
  The arbitrary imposition of unequal tariffs for substantially the same service. A difference in rates, not based upon any corresponding difference in cost, constitutes a case of discrimination. A. T. Hadley. 4. The quality of being discriminating;
• INTUITIONIST
  See BAIN
• INSIGHT
  1. A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with into. He had an insight into almost all the secrets of state. Jortin. 2. Power of acute observation and deduction; penetration;
• INTUITIONAL
  Pertaining to, or derived from, intuition; characterized by intuition; perceived by intuition; intuitive.
• SAGACITY
  The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness. Some show that nice sagacity of smell. Cowper. Natural sagacity improved by generous
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• PREAPPREHENSION
  An apprehension or opinion formed before examination or knowledge. Sir T. Browne.
• PREJUDGMENT
  The act of prejudging; decision before sufficient examination.
• INOBSERVATION
  Neglect or want of observation.
• INAPPREHENSION
  Want of apprehension.
• CONTRADISTINCTION
  Distinction by contrast. That there are such things as sins of infirmity in contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be questioned. South.
• INTERPENETRATION
  The act of penetrating between or within other substances; mutual penetration. Milman.
• IRRECOGNITION
  A failure to recognize; absence of recognition. Lamb.