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intuition
[ in-too-ish-uhn, -tyoo- ]
noun
- 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.
- Linguistics. the 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.
intuition
/ ˌɪntjʊˈɪʃən /
noun
- knowledge or belief obtained neither by reason nor by perception
- instinctive knowledge or belief
- a hunch or unjustified belief
- philosophy immediate knowledge of a proposition or object such as Kant's account of our knowledge of sensible objects
- the supposed faculty or process by which we obtain any of these
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Derived Forms
- ˌintuˈitionally, adverb
- ˌintuˈitional, adjective
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Other Words From
- intu·ition·less adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of intuition1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of intuition1
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Example Sentences
I fancy Holmes would have destroyed those theories with nothing more than his intuition.
Intuition would suggest that economic development is the cause, and pro-gay policies are the effect.
It is an effective combination of intuition and market research.
Police files on young people can now be opened with no higher standard than “strong intuition” that they might go abroad to fight.
Her intuition told her that her job was to continue saving lives rather than join politics.
But Ramona saw now, with infallible intuition, that even as she had loved Alessandro, so Felipe loved her.
In that poignant moment of self-revelation Tom's cumbersome machinery of intuition did not fail him.
Oh, yes, you needn't tell me again that it's difficult to distinguish between fancy and intuition.
He fathomed every complication of heart and mind in the modern woman by an intuition of the laws which control her development.
She got the tales by intuition rather than by words, though she was picking up some French at that.
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