different between informed vs insight

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?f??md/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?f??md/

Etymology 1

inform +? -ed

Verb

informed

1. simple past tense and past participle of inform

Adjective

informed (comparative more informed, superlative most informed)

1. Instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education.

2. Based on knowledge; founded on due understanding of a situation.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 696:

     Another informed and sobering estimate is that by 1800 indigenous populations in the western hemisphere were a tenth of what they had been three centuries before.

Translations

Etymology 2

in- +? formed the first sense probably uses in- (“in”), the second sense uses in- (“prefix of negation”).

Adjective

informed (comparative more informed, superlative most informed)

1. (obsolete) Created, given form.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:

     after Nilus invndation, / Infinite shapes of creatures men do fynd, / Informed in the mud, on which the Sunne hath shynd.

2. (obsolete) unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne in Honour of Beautie

     But, mindfull still of your first countries sight
     , Doe still preserve your first informed grace,
     Whose shadow yet shynes in your beauteous face

3. (astronomy, obsolete) Not included within the figures of any of the ancient constellations.

   the informed stars

Anagrams

• foremind, friendom

English

Etymology

From Middle English insight, insiht (“insight, mental vision, intelligence, understanding”), equivalent to in- +? sight. Perhaps continuing Old English insiht (“narrative, argument, account”), from Proto-Germanic *insahtiz (“account, narrative, argument”). Compare West Frisian ynsjoch (“insight”), Dutch inzicht (“insight, awareness, view, opinion”), German Low German Insicht (“insight”), German Einsicht (“insight, knowledge, perception, understanding”), Danish indsigt (“insight”), Swedish insikt (“insight”), Icelandic innsýn (“insight”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?n's?t, IPA^(key): /??nsa?t/

Noun

insight (countable and uncountable, plural insights)

1. A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; frequently used with into.
2. Power of acute observation and deduction

   Synonyms: penetration, discernment, perception

3. (marketing) Knowledge (usually derived from consumer understanding) that a company applies in order to make a product or brand perform better and be more appealing to customers
4. Intuitive apprehension of the inner nature of a thing or things; intuition.
5. (artificial intelligence) An extended understanding of a subject resulting from identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario.
6. (psychiatry) An individual's awareness of the nature and severity of one's mental illness.

Related terms

• outsight

Translations

Further reading

• insight in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• insight in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Tignish, histing, shiting, sight in, sithing