INTUITION

intuition

(noun) instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)

intuition, hunch, suspicion

(noun) an impression that something might be the case; “he had an intuition that something had gone wrong”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

intuition (countable and uncountable, plural intuitions)

Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.

A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.

Source: Wiktionary

In`tu*i"tion, n. Etym: [L. intuitus, p. p. of intueri to look on; in- in, on + tueri: cf. F. intuition. See Tuition.]

1. A looking after; a regard to. [Obs.] What, no reflection on a reward! He might have an intuition at it, as the encouragement, though not the cause, of his pains. Fuller.

2. Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness; -- distinguished from "mediate" knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not a square, that three are more than two, etc.; quick or ready insight or apprehension. Sagacity and a nameless something more, -- let us call it intuition. Hawthorne.

3. Any object or truth discerned by direct cognition; especially, a first or primary truth.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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