Intuition
[ɪntjʊ'ɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɪntu'ɪʃən]
Definition
(noun.) instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes).
(noun.) an impression that something might be the case; 'he had an intuition that something had gone wrong'.
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Definition
(n.) A looking after; a regard to.
(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.
(n.) Any object or truth discerned by direct cognition; especially, a first or primary truth.
Typist: Wolfgang
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Immediate perception (by the intellect), immediate knowledge, instinctive knowledge, direct cognition, apprehension at first sight.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Instinct, apprehension, recognition, insight
ANT:Information, learning, instruction, elaboration, acquirement, induction,experience
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Definition
n. the power of the mind by which it immediately perceives the truth of things without reasoning or analysis: a truth so perceived immediate knowledge in contrast with mediate.—v.t. and v.i. In′tuit to know intuitively.—adj. Intuit′ional.—ns. Intuit′ionalism the doctrine that the perception of truth is by intuition; Intuit′ionalist.—adj. Intū′itive perceived or perceiving by intuition: received or known by simple inspection.—adv. Intū′itively.—n. Intū′itivism.
Editor: Maureen
Unserious Contents or Definition
A fictitious quality in females—really Suspicion.
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Examples
- Her eyes sought the faces about her, craving a responsive glance, some sign of an intuition of her trouble. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- You have intuition. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And Plato might also have found that the intuition of evil may be consistent with the abhorrence of it. Plato. The Republic.
- The answer is easy with regard to propositions, that are proved by intuition or demonstration. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He shewed himself collected, gallant and imperial; his commands were prompt, his intuition of the events of the day to me miraculous. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It is this that Bergson means when he tells us that a philosopher's intuition always outlasts his system. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We call it intuition. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Three of these relations are discoverable at first sight, and fall more properly under the province of intuition than demonstration. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- What the explanation of this gift, power, or intuition may be, is perhaps better left to the psychologist to speculate upon. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Expect refinements of perceptionmiracles of intuition, and realize disappointment. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- One great mathematician, Poincaré, attributes his discoveries to intuition. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It was a wonderful experience to have problems given me out of the intuitions of a great mind, based on enormous experience in practical work, and applying to new lines of progress. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That is what gives understanding, and justifies the observation that the intuitions of scientific discovery and the artist's perceptions are closely related. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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