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intuition

[ in-too-ish-uhn, -tyoo- ]

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.
    1. an immediate cognition of an object not inferred or determined by a previous cognition of the same object.
    2. any object or truth so discerned.
    3. pure, untaught, noninferential knowledge.
  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.


intuition

/ ˌɪntjʊˈɪʃən /

noun

  1. knowledge or belief obtained neither by reason nor by perception
  2. instinctive knowledge or belief
  3. a hunch or unjustified belief
  4. philosophy immediate knowledge of a proposition or object such as Kant's account of our knowledge of sensible objects
  5. the supposed faculty or process by which we obtain any of these
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌintuˈitional, adjective
  • ˌintuˈitionally, adverb
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Other Words From

  • intu·ition·less adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of intuition1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Late Latin intuitiōn-, stem of intuitiō “contemplation,” equivalent to Latin intuit(us), past participle of intuērī “to gaze at, contemplate” + -iō -ion; in- 2, tuition
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Word History and Origins

Origin of intuition1

C15: from Late Latin intuitiō a contemplation, from Latin intuērī to gaze upon, from tuērī to look at
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Example Sentences

If you’re proving something that relies on some sort of geometric intuition or visualization, I never felt sure that I had it 100% correct.

“Neural networks are able to develop an artificial style of intuition,” Szegedy said.

Conjectures arise from inductive reasoning — a kind of intuition about an interesting problem — and proofs generally follow deductive, step-by-step logic.

Sometimes, though, when we do our first real model run, the results come close to my intuition anyway.

This corresponds to our own intuitions and experiences, because we humans are almost always responding to what we sense and remember.

I fancy Holmes would have destroyed those theories with nothing more than his intuition.

Intuition would suggest that economic development is the cause, and pro-gay policies are the effect.

It is an effective combination of intuition and market research.

Police files on young people can now be opened with no higher standard than “strong intuition” that they might go abroad to fight.

Her intuition told her that her job was to continue saving lives rather than join politics.

But Ramona saw now, with infallible intuition, that even as she had loved Alessandro, so Felipe loved her.

In that poignant moment of self-revelation Tom's cumbersome machinery of intuition did not fail him.

Oh, yes, you needn't tell me again that it's difficult to distinguish between fancy and intuition.

He fathomed every complication of heart and mind in the modern woman by an intuition of the laws which control her development.

She got the tales by intuition rather than by words, though she was picking up some French at that.

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