The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Decoding Insight Talk: Discourse Analyses of Insight in Ordinary Language and in Psychotherapy.

“…Common English language synonyms for insight as a state or capacity include wisdom, profundity, sagaciousness, sagacity, sageness, and sapience, which refer to "deep, thorough, or mature understanding"; or intuition, instinct, intuitiveness, which refer to the "power to discern the true nature of a person or situation" (Morris, 1981). A longer list adds a mixture of state-capacity and event words (e.g., click, understanding, acumen).…”

“…Most of these words refer to the state or capacity sense of insight. Words in other languages referring specifically to insight as an event are rarer, but include the French apergu (from perceive + to), a revealing glimpse of something (Correard & Grundy, 1995); the Russian prozreniye (from to see through), which refers to insight as a sudden regaining of one's vision (Katzner, 1994); the classical Greek, epiphaneia, originally a sudden manifestation or shining forth (Morris, 1981) but now used to refer to a moment of sudden illumination; and the Japanese dousatsu, which originally referred to a conjecture about what is hidden in a cave (Haig, 1997). All four of these insight event words rely directly or indirectly on visual metaphor.…”

“…"), often with a sensation of something "clicking"; and (d) newness, the sense of discovering something not previously known (e.g., "It was just something I never thought about that she presented"). This last element, newness, was salient in client accounts (see Elliott, 1985), but appears to have been slighted in dictionary and scientific definitions (e.g., Morris, 1981).…”

Art through the Colors of Graffiti: From the Perspective of the Chromatic Structure

“…Graffiti is a mass noun generally used to describe writings or drawings made on walls to be publicly seen, from the ancient inscriptions to the social phenomenon of tagging names in public locations [1,2]. The term has become even more elastic and in recent decades has also been used to refer to a contemporary form of visual art, usually wall paintings, done illegally or commissioned, in public spaces [3].…”

“…There is no consensus in the terminology that describes this more art-related meaning, and this type of graffiti is often called graffiti art [4], independent public art [5], or the most known and general term, street art [6]. In this study, we are concerned with the art expression, and the term graffiti will refer to paintings on public walls, either unsanctioned as in some definitions [1] or sanctioned, as many are nowadays [3].…”