INSIGHT - Definition & Meaning for Kids
Meaning 1
Part of speech: Noun
a feeling of understanding
Categories: Sensibility
Meaning 2
Part of speech: Noun
the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation
Categories: Understanding, Apprehension, Discernment, Savvy
Meaning 3
Part of speech: Noun
grasping the inner nature of things intuitively
Categories: Intuition
Synonyms
Perceptivity, Sixth sense, Brainstorm, Penetration, Perceptiveness
🌱 Word Origin (Etymology)
The word "insight" comes from Proto-Germanic *insahtiz. It started in Old English insiht. Then it appeared in Middle English insight. Many other languages have similar words:.
- West Frisian: ynsjoch
- Dutch: inzicht
- German Low German: Insicht
- German: Einsicht
- Danish: indsigt
- Swedish: insikt
- Icelandic: innsýn
🔗 Related Words
in- – A related word in the same word family.
sight – A related word in the same word family.
🧩 Fun Fact
Each language in this chain added phonetic changes that transformed the original sound.