A faculty, esp. of an intuitive nature, of accurately perceiving, discerning, or evaluating. Frequently with of.

light of nature: the capacity given to human beings of discerning certain divine truths without the help of revelation; (also occasionally in more…

Modern Philosophy. The immediate apprehension of an object by the mind without the intervention of any reasoning process; a particular act of such…

Any faculty acting like animal instinct; intuition; unconscious dexterity or skill.

The mental product or result of perceiving something. As a count noun: a direct recognition of something; an intuitive insight; an understanding…

Direct or intuitive perception of truth and certainty.

A supposed intuitive faculty by which a person or animal perceives facts and regulates action without the direct use of any of the five senses.

Chiefly Philosophy. Sense perception, observation; (esp. in Kantian thought) intuition (see intuition, n. 5). Also: an instance of this.

Intuitive apprehension or faculty; insight.

= intuitiveness, n. 2.

the eye of insight or destruction located in the middle of the forehead of the god Shiva; hence transferred, the power of inward or intuitive…

figurative. A person's awareness or intuition; a special sensitivity to factors, trends, influences, etc., in a particular area of activity or…