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say it: IN-sahyt
insight is a noun meaning "clear or deep perception of a situation". It carries 4 recorded senses.
clear or deep perception of a situation
a feeling of understanding
the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation
grasping the inner nature of things intuitively
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for insight come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.