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intuition Definition


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intuition
noun
    1. The power of understanding or realizing something without conscious rational thought or analysis.
      Thesaurus: instinct, insight, feeling, sixth sense, presentiment, perception, discernment, gut feeling (slang); Antonym: reasoning.
    2. Something understood or realized in this way.
    3. Immediate instinctive understanding or belief.
Etymology: 16c in sense 1; 15c in obsolete sense ‘a view': from Latin intuitio, from tueri to look.



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