INSIGHTS Synonyms

• fearful expectation or anticipation

• the cognitive condition of someone who understands

• painful expectation

• the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)

• the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

• an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result)

• the relation of comprising something

• an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

• the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon

• the event that occurred at the beginning of something

• the creation of something in the mind

• the cognitive condition of someone who understands

• delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)

• perception of that which is obscure

• the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

• the trait of judging wisely and objectively

• education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge

• a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine

• (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness

• a divine manifestation

• twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus

• a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination

• the degree of visibility of your environment

• an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding

• the luminous flux incident on a unit area

• painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts)

• a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something

• the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance

• an explanation that results from interpreting something

• an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious

• instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)

• an impression that something might be the case

• the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

• the act of making and recording a measurement

• the act of observing; taking a patient look

• a remark expressing careful consideration

• facts learned by observing

• the act of noticing or paying attention

• the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept

• a way of conceiving something

• the process of perceiving

• knowledge gained by perceiving

• becoming aware of something via the senses

• coming to understand something clearly and distinctly

• making real or giving the appearance of reality

• a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer

• a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained

• the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer

• something that is made real or concrete

• the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged

• the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering

• approval

• coming to understand something clearly and distinctly

• (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape

• the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country

• an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid

• designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body

• the last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the Apostle

• the speech act of making something evident

• an enlightening or astonishing disclosure

• communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency

• the cognitive condition of someone who understands

• the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises

• an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion

• the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination

• characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy

• accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment

• an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC

• the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight

• ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight

• the quality of being prudent and sensible

• the cognitive condition of someone who understands

• delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)

• perception of that which is obscure

• the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

• the trait of judging wisely and objectively