insee

verb

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.

derived from *sekʷ-✻ — “to see, notice”
inherited from *sehwaną✻ — “to see”
inherited from *sehwan✻
inherited from sēon
inherited from seen
prefixed as insee — “in + see”

Definitions

1
To see into
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 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...
To inspect.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for insee. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA