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in·tu·i·tive

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–adjective

1.	perceiving by intuition, as a person or the mind.

2.	perceived by, resulting from, or involving intuition: intuitive knowledge.

3.	having or possessing intuition: an intuitive person.

4.	capable of being perceived or known by intuition.

[Origin: 1585–95; < ML intuitīvus. See intuition, -ive

]

—Related forms

in·tu·i·tive·ly, adverb

in·tu·i·tive·ness, noun

—Synonyms 2. innate, inborn, natural.

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in·tu·i·tive Audio Help (ĭn-tōō'ĭ-tĭv, -tyōō'-) Pronunciation Key
adj.

Of, relating to, or arising from intuition.
Known or perceived through intuition. See Synonyms at instinctive.
Possessing or demonstrating intuition.

in·tu'i·tive·ly adv., in·tu'i·tive·ness n.

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intuitive
adjective
1.	spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency; "an intuitive revulsion"
2.	obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation

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In"nate\, a. [L. innatus; pref. in- in + natus born, p. p. of nasci to be born. See Native.]

1. Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.

2. (Metaph.) Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See A priori, Intuitive.

There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and evil. --South.

Men would not be guilty if they did not carry in their mind common notions of morality,innate and written in divine letters. --Fleming (Origen).

If I could only show,as I hope I shall . . . how men, barely by the use of their natural faculties, may attain to all the knowledge they have, without the help of any innate impressions; and may arrive at certainty without any such original notions or principles. --Locke.

3. (Bot.) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther. --Gray.

Innate ideas (Metaph.), ideas, as of God, immortality, right and wrong, supposed by some to be inherent in the mind, as a priori principles of knowledge.

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