Intuition : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Intuition	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Intuition
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
intuition n instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes) an impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong" Synonym(s): intuition, hunch, suspicion
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Intuition \In`tui"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 [bd]mediate[b8] 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 The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Intuition The {Amiga} {windowing system} (a shared-code library). (1997-08-01)