meaning of intuition
1. A looking after; a regard to.
2. 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.
3. Any object or truth discerned by direct cognition; especially, a first or primary truth.
4. Intuition
5. instinctive knowing without the use of rational processes
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