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
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
4 April 2025
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