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.

 

3. a keen and quick insight.

 

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.

     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.