Dictionary Definition
intuition
Noun
1 instinctive knowing (without the use of
rational processes)
2 an impression that something might be the case;
"he had an intuition that something had gone wrong" [syn: hunch, suspicion]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
Translations
Immediate cognition without the use of rational
processes
A perceptive insight gained by the use of this
faculty
- Finnish: intuitio, vaisto, aavistus
- Italian: intuizione
Related terms
Finnish
Noun
intuitionExtensive Definition
Intuition has many related meanings, usually
connected to the meaning "ability to sense or know immediately
without reasoning", including:
- Intuition is the philosophical method of Henri Bergson.
- Intuition (philosophy)
- In psychology, intuition may mean:
- Intuition (knowledge) - understanding without apparent effort, quick and ready insight seemingly independent of previous experiences or empirical knowledge.
- Intuition is one of the four axes of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, opposite sensing.
- Intuition (Amiga) - the name of the graphical user interface toolkit supplied with the Commodore Amiga.
- In music, intuition may mean:
- Intuition (album) a 1989 album by TNT.
- Intuition - a song off Mind Games by John Lennon.
- Intuition (song) - the 2003 song by Jewel Kilcher.
- Intuition - a 2002 Danish trance album by DJ Encore and vocalist Engelina.
- Intuition - a 2007 song from album "The Reminder" by Leslie Feist
- Intuition (book) - a novel by Allegra Goodman
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
ESP,
anschauung, clairsentience, clairvoyance, common sense,
extrasensory perception, feeling, foreboding, forefeeling, foresight, funny feeling,
hunch, impression, insight, instinct, intimation, intuitive
impression, intuitiveness, lucidity, mother wit, perception, perceptiveness, percipience, perspicacity, preapprehension,
premonition,
presentiment,
psychometry, second
sight, sixth sense, suspicion, vague feeling,
vague idea