intuit

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To understand or sense something immediately, without conscious reasoning.

   She quickly intuited that something was wrong from his tone of voice.

A back-formation from intuition and intuitive; compare Latin intuitus (“observed; considered”), perfect participle of intueor (“to look at, upon or towards; to observe, regard; to consider, contemplate”), from in- (“in, inside”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”)) + tueor (“to look or gaze at”). Related to tuition, tutor.

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