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Comprehend vs Insight - What's the difference?

comprehend | insight |

As a verb comprehend

is .

As a noun insight is

a sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; frequently used with into.

comprehend

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.1:
  • And lothly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, / That nought but gall and venim comprehended […].
  • * 1776 , (Edward Gibbon), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Penguin 2009, p. 9:
  • In the second century of the Christian Æra, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.
  • To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly.
  • insight

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; frequently used with into.
  • * 1980 , Carl Sagan, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage ,
  • The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.
  • Power of acute observation and deduction; penetration; discernment; perception.
  • (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
  • The act or result of apprehending the inner nature of things or of seeing intuitively
  • (artificial intelligence) An extended understanding of a subject resulting from identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario.
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