intuitionnoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˌɪn.tʃuːˈɪʃ.ən/us/ˌɪn.tuːˈɪʃ.ən/C2 (knowledge from) an ability to understand or know something immediately based on your feelings rather than facts:
Often there's no clear evidence one way or the other and you just have to base your judgment on intuition.
[ + (that) ] I can't explain how I knew - I just had an intuition that you'd been involved in an accident.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Predicting things and intuition
- augur
- augury
- bellwether
- betcha
- bode
- far-sighted
- intuit
- intuitive
- nasty
- omen
- ominous
- projection
- prophetic
- psychic
- read sb's mind idiom
- read sb's palm idiom
- read the runes idiom
- scenario
- scent
- visionary
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