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発音

enPR: ĭn'sīt

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɪnsaɪ̯t/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈɪnsaɪ̯t/, (Canadian raising) [ˈɪnsɐɪ̯t]
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈɪnsɑe̯t/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈənsaɪ̯t/, [ˈənsɑe̯t]

Distinguished from incite by differing stress placement, except in South Asian English.

• (Indic) IPA: /ɪnsajʈ/
  • Homophone: incite

名詞

insight (countable and uncountable, plural insights)

1. A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; frequently used with into.
   • 1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage:

     The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.

   • 2014 January, Claire Kramsch, “Language and Culture”, in AILA Review‎, volume 27, number 5, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, page 30:

     This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators.

2. Power of acute observation and deduction.

   Synonyms: penetration, discernment, perception

   • 2026 March 4, Christian Wolmar, “Railtrack: what really happened”, in RAIL, number 1056, page 52:

     Corbett has an interesting insight into the reactions of his colleagues from diverse backgrounds: "The ex-British Rail people responded much better than those from the private sector. In terms of helping, the private sector people headed for the hills, while the railway people, like Chris Leah [the operations director] and Dick Fearn [the Midlands Zone director] moved towards the gunfire. The non-railway people on the whole didn't."

3. (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
4. Intuitive apprehension of the inner nature of a thing or things; intuition.
5. (artificial intelligence) An extended understanding of a subject resulting from identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario.
6. (psychiatry) An individual's awareness of the nature and severity of one's mental illness.

   Synonym: nosognosia

派生語

関連する語

• outsight

Further reading

• “insight”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “insight”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Tignish, histing, shiting, sight in, sithing

反意語

• out of sight
• hidden
• distant

参考

• in one's sight

アナグラム

• Tignish, histing, shiting, sight in, sithing