intuition

intuition
    n 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" [syn: {intuition},
       {hunch}, {suspicion}]
    

Intuition \In`tu*i"tion\, n. [L. intuitus, p. p. of intueri to
   look on; in- in, on + tueri: cf. F. intuition. See
   {Tuition}.]
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   1. A looking after; a regard to. [Obs.]
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            What, no reflection on a reward! He might have an
            intuition at it, as the encouragement, though not
            the cause, of his pains.              --Fuller.
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   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.
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            Sagacity and a nameless something more, -- let us
            call it intuition.                    --Hawthorne.
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   3. Any object or truth discerned by intuition.
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   4. Any quick insight, recognized immediately without a
      reasoning process; a belief arrived at unconsciously; --
      often it is based on extensive experience of a subject.
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   5. The ability to have insight into a matter without
      conscious thought; as, his chemical intuition allowed him
      to predict compound conformations without any conscious
      calculation; a mother's intuition often tells her what is
      best for her child.
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Intuition

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   shared-code library).

   (1997-08-01)
    

33 Moby Thesaurus words for "intuition":
      ESP, anschauung, clairsentience, clairvoyance, common sense,
      extrasensory perception, feeling, foreboding, forefeeling,
      foresight, funny feeling, hunch, impression, insight, instinct,
      intimation, intuitive impression, intuitiveness, lucidity,
      mother wit, perception, perceptiveness, percipience, perspicacity,
      preapprehension, premonition, presentiment, psychometry,
      second sight, sixth sense, suspicion, vague feeling, vague idea