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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024in•tu•i•tion /ˌɪntuˈɪʃən, -tyu-/USA pronunciation n. - direct perception of, or the power of understanding, a fact, the truth, a conclusion, etc., without any reasoning process or analysis:[uncountable]Your argument is based on intuition, not logic.
- a fact, truth, etc., perceived in this way:[countable]His intuitions were usually right.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024in•tu•i•tion (in′to̅o̅ ish′ən, -tyo̅o̅-),USA pronunciation n. - direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process;
immediate apprehension. - a fact, truth, etc., perceived in this way.
- a keen and quick insight.
- the quality or ability of having such direct perception or quick insight.
- Philosophy
- an immediate cognition of an object not inferred or determined by a previous cognition of the same object.
- any object or truth so discerned.
- pure, untaught, noninferential knowledge.
- Linguisticsthe ability of the native speaker to make linguistic judgments, as of the grammaticality, ambiguity, equivalence, or nonequivalence of sentences, deriving from the speaker's native-language competence.
- Late Latin intuitiōn- (stem of intuitiō) contemplation, equivalent. to Latin intuit(us), past participle of intuērī to gaze at, contemplate + -iōn- -ion. See in-2, tuition
- late Middle English 1400–50
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