'Intuition' definitions:
Definition of 'intuition'
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Definition of 'Intuition'
From: GCIDE
- Intuition \In`tu*i"tion\, n. [L. intuitus, p. p. of intueri to look on; in- in, on + tueri: cf. F. intuition. See Tuition.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. A looking after; a regard to. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- What, no reflection on a reward! He might have an intuition at it, as the encouragement, though not the cause, of his pains. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Sagacity and a nameless something more, -- let us call it intuition. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Any object or truth discerned by intuition. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Any quick insight, recognized immediately without a reasoning process; a belief arrived at unconsciously; -- often it is based on extensive experience of a subject. [PJC]
- 5. The ability to have insight into a matter without conscious thought; as, his chemical intuition allowed him to predict compound conformations without any conscious calculation; a mother's intuition often tells her what is best for her child. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'intuition'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anschauung,
- clairsentience,
- clairvoyance,
- common sense,
- ESP,
- extrasensory perception,
- feeling,
- foreboding,
- forefeeling,
- foresight,
- funny feeling,
- hunch,
- impression,
- insight,
- instinct,
- intimation,
- intuitive impression,
- intuitiveness,
- lucidity,
- mother wit,
- perception,
- perceptiveness,
- percipience,
- perspicacity,
- preapprehension,
- premonition,
- presentiment,
- psychometry,
- second sight,
- sixth sense,
- suspicion,
- vague feeling,
- vague idea