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Intuition

Intuition Definition And Meaning
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.

Intuition Definition And Meaning

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

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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