insee

Meaning

Verb

• To see into; to observe acutely.
• To have or gain insight into; to empathise with or come to fully understand one's point of view.
• To inspect.

Origin

• From in- + see, or taken as a back-formation of inseeing, itself a loan-translation of German Einsehen. Compare Old English onsēon ("to look on, observe, regard, take notice of"). More at insight.