Intuition (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process; immediate apprehension.
  2. a fact, truth, etc., perceived in this way.
  3. a keen and quick insight.
  4. the quality or ability of having such direct perception or quick insight.
  5. 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.
  6. the 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.
noun
  1. knowledge or belief obtained neither by reason nor by perception
  2. instinctive knowledge or belief
  3. a hunch or unjustified belief
  4. immediate knowledge of a proposition or object such as Kant's account of our knowledge of sensible objects
  5. the supposed faculty or process by which we obtain any of these
Intuition (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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