outsight

noun

1. Sight for that which is on the outside; the ability or capacity to perceive or anticipate external things; view; outlook; perspective; power of observation.

   countable, uncountable

   When we live by outsight, we become submissive to fate.

2. Expectation; prospect.

   countable, uncountable

   Yet we sail toward it grasping The outsight which we know is there.

3. Movable goods kept out of doors, such as animals, ploughs, carts, and other implements of husbandry.

   countable, uncountable

Where it comes from

From out- + sight. Cognate with Dutch uitzicht (“view, prospect, outlook”), German Aussicht (“view, prospect, chance, outlook, perspective”), Swedish utsikt (“view, outlook, prospect”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry outsight (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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