- knowledge or belief obtained neither by reason nor by perception
- instinctive knowledge or belief
- a hunch or unjustified belief
ˌintuˈitional adj ˌintuˈitionally adv
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in•tu•i•tion /ˌɪntuˈɪʃən, -tyu-/USA pronunciation
n.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024- direct perception of, or the power of understanding, a fact, the truth, a conclusion, etc., without any reasoning process or analysis:[uncountable]Your argument is based on intuition, not logic.
- a fact, truth, etc., perceived in this way:[countable]His intuitions were usually right.
in•tu•i•tion
(in′to̅o̅ ish′ən, -tyo̅o̅-),USA pronunciation n.
in′tu•i′tion•less, adj.
- direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process;
immediate apprehension. - a fact, truth, etc., perceived in this way.
- a keen and quick insight.
- the quality or ability of having such direct perception or quick insight.
- Philosophy
- an immediate cognition of an object not inferred or determined by a previous cognition of the same object.
- any object or truth so discerned.
- pure, untaught, noninferential knowledge.
- Linguisticsthe ability of the native speaker to make linguistic judgments, as of the grammaticality, ambiguity, equivalence, or nonequivalence of sentences, deriving from the speaker's native-language competence.
- Late Latin intuitiōn- (stem of intuitiō) contemplation, equivalent. to Latin intuit(us), past participle of intuērī to gaze at, contemplate + -iōn- -ion. See in-2, tuition
- late Middle English 1400–50
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intuition /ˌɪntjʊˈɪʃən/ n
ˌintuˈitional adj ˌintuˈitionally adv
ˌintuˈitional adj ˌintuˈitionally adv
'intuition' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Anschauung
- anticipation
- bone
- cerebral
- clairvoyance
- cognition
- counterintuitive
- discursive
- divination
- divine
- forebode
- heart
- insight
- intuit
- intuitional
- intuitionism
- intuitive
- invention
- mystic
- mysticism
- noumenon
- perception
- perceptive
- premonition
- rationalism
- sixth sense
- suss
- third ear
- third eye
- transcendentalism
- visceral