insee

See also: INSEE

English

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.

Verb

insee (third-person singular simple present insees, present participle inseeing, simple past insaw, past participle inseen)

1. To see into; to observe acutely.
   • 1992, Victoria Harris, The incorporative consciousness of Robert Bly:

     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.
   • 1990, Sandra Gilbert, Acts of attention: the poems of D.H. Lawrence:

     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.

Anagrams

• Eisen, Niese, Seine, see in, seein, seein', seine, senie