intuition

The definition of intuition is an immediate understanding or knowing something without reasoning.

(noun)

An example of intuition is love at first sight.

See intuition in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

the direct knowing or learning of something without the conscious use of reasoning; immediate understanding
something known or learned in this way
the ability to perceive or know things without conscious reasoning

Origin: LL < L intuitus, pp. of intueri, to look at, regard < in-, in + tueri, to look at, view

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See intuition in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

a. The act or faculty of knowing or sensing without the use of rational processes; immediate cognition. See Synonyms at reason.
b. Knowledge gained by the use of this faculty; a perceptive insight.
A sense of something not evident or deducible; an impression.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English intuicioun, insight

Origin: , from Late Latin intuitiō, intuitiōn-, a looking at

Origin: , from Latin intuitus, a look

Origin: , from

Origin: past participle of intuērī, to look at, contemplate

Origin: : in-, on; see in-²

Origin: + tuērī, to look at

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