Definitions for intuition

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intuition in·tu·i·tion

Spelling: [in-too-ish-uh n, -tyoo-]

IPA: /ˌɪn tuˈɪʃ ən, -tyu-/

Intuition is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in intuition (iiinnottu).

Definitions for intuition

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. an immediate cognition of an object not inferred or determined by a previous cognition of the same object. any object or truth so discerned. 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.

Origin of intuition

1400-50; late Middle English Late Latin intuitiōn- (stem of intuitiō) contemplation, equivalent to Latin intuit(us), past participle of intuērī to gaze at, contemplate + -iōn- Examples for intuition

Her woman's intuition divined a sequel to the afternoon's drama.

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

May I know, doctor, whether you have any other reason than that of intuition for asking the question?

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

Her intuition confirmed his own protestations of friendliness.

The very drunk have the intuition sometimes of savages or brute beasts.

It is an effective combination of intuition and market research.

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

“These dancers will become experts of intuition,” Latarro says.

But hadn't her intuition been justified, after all, by the very man she had seen tonight?