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outsight

noun

Etymology

From out- + sight. Cognate with Dutch uitzicht (“view, prospect, outlook”), German Aussicht (“view, prospect, chance, outlook, perspective”), Swedish utsikt (“view, outlook, prospect”).

  1. inherited from *sihti✻ — “seeing, sight”
  2. inherited from sihþ — “something seen; vision”
  3. inherited from sighte
  4. prefixed as outsight — “out + sight”

Definitions

  1. Sight for that which is on the outside

    Sight for that which is on the outside; the ability or capacity to perceive or anticipate external things; view; outlook; perspective; power of observation.

    • When we live by outsight, we become submissive to fate.
    • It can key her into broad areas of emotional import, and therefore of personal significance, which if made relevant to the subject matter would provide some children with opportunities for linking insights to outsights, [...]
    • This means honing their “outsight” —the capacity to perceive external things—and helping their constituents develop that ability as well.

  2. Expectation

    Expectation; prospect.

    • Yet we sail toward it grasping The outsight which we know is there.

  3. Movable goods kept out of doors, such as animals, ploughs, carts, and other implements of…

    Movable goods kept out of doors, such as animals, ploughs, carts, and other implements of husbandry.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for outsight. 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