
intuition:
n.
1.
a. The act or faculty of knowing or sensing without the use of rational processes; immediate cognition.
b. Knowledge gained by the use of this faculty; a perceptive insight.
2. A sense of something not evident or deducible; an impression.
[Middle English intuicioun, insight, from Late Latin intuiti
, intuiti
n-, a looking at, from Latin intuitus, a look, from past participle of intu
r
, to look at, contemplate : in-, on; see in-2 + tu
r
, to look at.]
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