intuition

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The ability to understand or know something immediately, without conscious reasoning.

   Good doctors often rely on intuition as well as test results.

2. 2
   noun

   A feeling that something is true, even without proof.

   They had an intuition that something had gone wrong.

From Middle French intuition, from Medieval Latin intuitiō (“a looking at, immediate cognition”), from Latin intueor (“to look at, consider”), from in- (“in, on”) + tueor (“to look, watch, guard, see, observe”). Equivalent to intuit + -ion.

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