- 1. n. A looking after; a regard to. Source: opted
- 2. n. 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. Source: opted
- 3. n. Any object or truth discerned by direct cognition; especially, a first or primary truth. Source: opted
- 4. n. instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes) Source: wordnet
- 5. n. an impression that something might be the case Source: wordnet
- 6. 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. Source: webster
- 7. n:100 n. instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes) n. an impression that something might be the case Source: ecdict
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