March 1st - Word of the Day - Intuition
in·tu·i·tion
[in-too-ish-uhn, -tyoo-]
noun
1. direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process; immediate apprehension.
2. a fact, truth, etc., perceived in this way.
4. the quality or ability of having such direct perception or quick insight.
5.
Philosophy .
a. an immediate cognition of an object not inferred or determined by a previous cognition of the same object.
b. any object or truth so discerned.
a. an immediate cognition of an object not inferred or determined by a previous cognition of the same object.
b. any object or truth so discerned.
c.
pure, untaught, noninferential knowledge.
6.
Linguistics .
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.