About The Word Intuition
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Intuition
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What's The Definition Of Intuition?
[n] instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)
[n] an impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong" Synonyms | Synonyms for Intuition: hunch | suspicion Related Terms | Find terms related to Intuition: 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 See Also | basic cognitive process | belief | bosom | feeling | gnosis | heart | immediacy | immediate apprehension | impression | insight | inspiration | notion | opinion | sixth sense Intuition In Webster's Dictionary \In`tu*i"tion\, n. [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.
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