Insee
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To see into; to observe acutely.
"First, moving from his internal region outwards to other internal regions, the speaker insees the "tear inside the stone.""
- 2 To have or gain insight into; to empathise with or come to fully understand one's point of view.
"This process of intuitional knowledge is strikingly analogous to the process of inseeing (Einsehen) Rilke described in his letters. I love inseeing. Can you imagine with me how glorious it is to insee..."
- 3 To inspect.
Example
More examples"First, moving from his internal region outwards to other internal regions, the speaker insees the "tear inside the stone.""
Etymology
From in- + see, or taken as a back-formation of inseeing, itself a loan-translation / calque of German Einsehen (“recognition, observation”). Compare Old English onsēon (“to look on, observe, regard, take notice of”). More at insight.
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