intuition

intuition
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Innate knowledge
Nouns — intuition, intuitiveness, insight, perceptivity, instinct; apprehension, presentiment (see expectation); rule of thumb; clairvoyance, sixth sense, extrasensory perception, ESP, second sight. See intellect, knowledge, prediction.
Verbs — sense, feel; guess, hazard a guess, talk at random, play [it] by ear; intuit. Informal, not have a leg to stand on; feel it in one's bones. Slang, fly by the seat of one's pants.
Adjectives — intuitive, instinctive, impulsive, automatic; perceptive; independent of reason, natural, innate, gratuitous, hazarded; unconnected. Informal, gut.
Adverbs — intuitively, instinctively, by intuition; illogically; without rhyme or reason.
Quotations — It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry), A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience (Oliver Wendell Holmes).
Antonyms, see reasoning.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. presentiment, foreknowledge, inspiration, sixth sense; see feeling 4 , hunch 2 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
sense, sixth sense, hunch, feeling, instinct, insight, *feeling in one's bones, *gut instinct, *vibes, inkling, perception, discernment, apprehension.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) 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.

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