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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Intuition \In`tu*i"tion\, n. [L. intuitus p. p. of intueri to look on in- in on + tueri: cf F. intuition. See {Tuition}.] 1. A looking after a regard to [Obs.] What no reflection on a reward! He might have an intuition at it as the encouragement, though not the cause of his pains. --Fuller. 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. Sagacity and a nameless something more -- let us call it intuition. --Hawthorne. 3. Any object or truth discerned by direct cognition; especially, a first or primary truth. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: intuition n 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}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: IntuitionThe {Amiga} {windowing system} (a shared-code library). (1997-08-01)
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