out|sight

out|sight
out|sight «OWT SYT», noun.
the act or process of viewing the outside or external parts (of something) with understanding: »

One who wants to prepare a “repository of information” takes as his models Baedeker, encyclopedias, and almanacs.…He relies on outsight, not on insight (Milton R. Konvitz).


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