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. - 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 - 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; - 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
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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.