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insee

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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 insees · inseeing · insaw · inseen

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."
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.

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@misc{insee_2026,
  title = {insee},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/insee},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}