intuition
nounThe faculty of knowing or understanding something without reasoning or proof. synonym: reason.
nounAn impression or insight gained by the use of this faculty.
nounA looking on; a sight or view.
nounDirect or immediate cognition or perception; comprehension of ideas or truths independently of ratiocination; instinctive knowledge of the relations or consequences of ideas, facts, or actions.
nounSpecifically, in philosophy, an immediate cognition of an object as existent.
noun[Some writers hold that the German Anschauung should not be translated by intuition. But this term is a part of the Kantian terminology, the whole of which was framed in Latin and translated into German, and this word in particular was used by Kant in his Latin writings in the form intuitus, and he frequently brackets this form after
Any object or truth discerned by direct cognition; a first or primary truth; a truth that cannot be acquired by but is assumed in experience.
nounPure, untaught knowledge.
nounA looking after; a regard to.
nounDirect apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness; — distinguished from “mediate” knowledge, as in reasoning; ; quick or ready insight or apprehension.