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the capacity to gain an accurate and deep intuitive understanding of a person or thing:

洞察力

e.g. this paper is alive with sympathetic insight into Shakespeare.

a deep understanding of a person or thing:

｟ほめて｠ ; C «…についての» 見識, 洞察; U深い理解 «into»

e.g. the signals would give marine biologists new insights into the behavior of whales.

Psychiatry new understanding by a mentally ill person of the causes of their disorder.

Middle English (in the sense ‘inner sight, wisdom’): probably of Scandinavian and Low German origin and related to Swedish insikt, Danish indsigt, Dutch inzicht, and German Einsicht.