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in·tu·i·tion 
[in-too-ish-uhn, -tyoo-] Pronunciation Key
[in-too-ish-uhn, -tyoo-] Pronunciation Key –noun
| 1. | direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process; immediate apprehension. |
| 2. | a fact, truth, etc., perceived in this way. |
| 3. | a keen and quick insight. |
| 4. | the quality or ability of having such direct perception or quick insight. |
| 5. | Philosophy.
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| 6. | 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. |
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| in·tu·i·tion
(ĭn'tōō-ĭsh'ən, -tyōō-) Pronunciation Key
n.
[Middle English intuicioun, insight, from Late Latin intuitiō, intuitiōn-, a looking at, from Latin intuitus, a look, from past participle of intuērī, to look at, contemplate : in-, on; see in-2 + tuērī, to look at.] in'tu·i'tion·al adj., in'tu·i'tion·al·ly adv. |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
intuition
intuition
1497, from M.Fr. intuition, from L.L. intuitionem (nom. intuitio) "a looking at, consideration," from L. intuitus, pp. of intueri "look at, consider," from in- "at, on" + tueri "to look at, watch over" (see tuition). The verb intuit is an 1840 back-formation apparently coined by De Quincey.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| intuition | |
noun | |
| 1. | instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes) |
| 2. | an impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong" |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This
Intuition operating system
The Amiga windowing system (a shared-code library).
(1997-08-01)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Intuition
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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