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intuition

  (ĭn'tū-ĭsh'ən, -tyū-)

1. 1. The act or faculty of knowing or sensing without the use of rational processes; immediate cognition. See synonyms at reason.
   2. Knowledge gained by the use of this faculty; a perceptive insight.
2. A sense of something not evident or deducible; an impression.

[Middle English intuicioun, insight, from Late Latin intuitiō, intuitiōn-, a looking at, from Latin intuitus, a look, from past participle of intuērī, to look at, contemplate : in-, on; see in–² + tuērī, to look at.]

noun

1. Intuitive cognition: feeling, hunch, idea, impression, suspicion. See thoughts.
2. The power to discern the true nature of a person or situation: insight, instinct, intuitiveness, penetration, sixth sense. See thoughts.

Definition: insight
Antonyms: intellect, knowledge, reason, reasoning

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Immediate awareness, either of the truth of some proposition, or of an object of apprehension such as a concept. Awareness of the passage of time, or of the ineffable nature of God, have equally been claimed as intuitions. The notion is frequently regarded with suspicion, as simply labelling the place where the philosophical understanding of the source of our knowledge stops. In the philosophy of Kant intuition (Anschauung) has an empirical form, covering the sensible apprehension of things, and as pure intuition it is that which structures sensation into the experience of things in space and time.

Human faculty by which individuals are aware of facts not accessible to normal sensory or mental processes. Some apparent intuition may be attributed to unconscious sensory or mental perception or deduction. Other intuitive awareness suggests paranormal faculty.

Quotes:

"Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out." - Michael Burke

"Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality." - Alexis Carrel

"The only real valuable thing is intuition." - Albert Einstein

"It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner." - Dr. Jonas Salk

"There is no instinct like that of the heart." - Lord Byron

"Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation." - Eileen Caddy

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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.
• 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 (song) - the 2003 song by Jewel Kilcher.
  • Intuition - a 2002 Danish trance album by DJ Encore and vocalist Engelina.
• Intuition (company) - a US-based video game developer
• Intuition (game) - "The Game You Already Know" was a board game produced in Toronto Canada for a few years in the early 1990s by the company "Applied Intuition" and sold in the U.S. and Canada.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - intuition, umiddelbar opfattelse

Nederlands (Dutch)
intuïtie

Français (French)
n. - intuition, sens, flair

Deutsch (German)
n. - Intuition

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (ενστικτώδης) διαίσθηση, ενόραση

Italiano (Italian)
intuizione, intuito

Português (Portuguese)
n. - intuição (f)

Русский (Russian)
интуиция

Español (Spanish)
n. - intuición, presentimiento

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - intuition, omedelbar uppfattning, ingivelse

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
直觉, 直觉的知识

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 直覺, 直覺的知識

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 직각, 직관

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 直覚, 直観, 直観力

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) حدس, , بديهه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮בינת-הלב, טביעת-עין, אינטואיציה, תפיסה מיידית של המוח ללא חשיבה‬

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