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.

Common collocations

• feminine intuition Adjective + noun

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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