What is the meaning of Intuition?

  • (n.) Any object or truth discerned by direct cognition; especially, a first or primary truth.
  • (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.) A looking after; a regard to.
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MLAWebster's. "intuition" 27 May 2011. Web. 23 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/intuition/definitions/2023308>
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