different between visibility vs insight

English

Etymology

From Middle French visibilité, from Late Latin visibilitas; equivalent to visible +? -ity.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?v?z.??b?l.?.ti/, /?v?z.??b?l.?.ti/, /?v?z.??b?l.?.ti/

Noun

visibility (countable and uncountable, plural visibilities)

1. (uncountable) The condition of being visible.
2. (countable) The degree to which things may be seen.

   The visibility from that angle was good.

3. (programming) The scope within which a variable or function is able to be accessed directly.
4. (obsolete, rare) Something worthy of being seen; a sight.
   • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 658:

     ‘Sir, I have seen all the visibilities of Paris, and around it; but to have formed an acquaintance with the people there, would have required more time than I could stay.’

Synonyms

• apparency
• visibleness

Antonyms

• hiddenness
• invisibility
• latency

Derived terms

• high-visibility

Related terms

• visible
• visibly

Translations

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