How to say "insight" in Japanese

• 洞察どうさつCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbCovers insight as seeing into the essence of things — grasping a situation, another person's motives, or one's own mind. This is the sense psychologists mean by insight.
  この詩しは読者どくしゃの大おおいなる洞察どうさつを必要ひつようとしている。↗

  This poem calls for great insight from the reader.
• 眼力がんりきCommon
  nounA keen, practical eye: the ability to judge people, spot talent, or tell genuinely good work from inferior. Think of a collector's or judge's eye rather than abstract understanding.
• 識見しきけんCommon
  nounPoints to a person's considered views and judgment — breadth of opinion grounded in knowledge — rather than a flash of insight; seldom the word for insight into minds. A separate sense means pride.
• 眼光がんこうCommon
  nounThe discerning eye or gaze brought to evaluating something: sharp, critical observation that penetrates appearances. Suits appraisal and criticism more than the inner-mind sense of insight.
• メガネJLPT N5approx.Common
  nounThis is the word for eyeglasses; its judgment sense is a specialized, idiomatic use tied to someone's discerning eye or approval. As a general rendering of 'insight' it is seldom the word you want.

Choose 洞察 for penetrating insight into a person or situation, 眼力 or 眼光 for a keen judging eye, 識見 for considered views and judgment, and avoid 「メガネ」, which really means glasses.

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• 洞察どうさつdiscernment
• 眼力がんりきinsight
• 識見しきけんviews
• 洞見どうけんinsight
• 洞察力どうさつりょくinsight
• 観入かんにゅうinsight
• 透察とうさつinsight
• インサイトinsight
• 達眼たつがんinsight
• 直覚ちょっかくintuition
• 眼識がんしきdiscrimination
• 達見たっけんfarsightedness
• 達識たっしきfarsightedness
• 活眼かつがんkeen eye
• 見通しみとおしinsight
• 読みよみreading (e.g. of a situation)
• 通つうunderstanding (esp. of male-female relations)
• 眼光がんこうinsight
• めがねjudgment
• 眼がんinsight
• ひらめきinsight
• 明めいdiscernment