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All intuition synonyms

in·tu·i·tion
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noun intuition

  • insight — an instance of apprehending the true nature of a thing, especially through intuitive understanding: an insight into 18th-century life.
  • instinct — an inborn pattern of activity or tendency to action common to a given biological species.
  • hunch — to thrust out or up in a hump; arch: to hunch one's back.
  • perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • clairvoyance — the alleged power of perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses
  • discernment — the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding.
  • foreknowledge — knowledge of something before it exists or happens; prescience: Did you have any foreknowledge of the scheme?
  • penetration — the act or power of penetrating.
  • nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
  • premonition — a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event; presentiment: He had a vague premonition of danger.
  • feeling — a quality of an object that is perceived by feeling or touching: the soft feel of cotton.
  • divination — the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means.
  • presentiment — a feeling or impression that something is about to happen, especially something evil; foreboding.
  • inspiration — an inspiring or animating action or influence: I cannot write poetry without inspiration.
  • perceptivity — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
  • awareness — the state or condition of being aware; having knowledge; consciousness: The object of the information drive is to raise awareness of what spreads HIV/AIDS.
  • sensitivity — the state or quality of being sensitive; sensitiveness.
  • esp — Especially.
  • inkling — a slight suggestion or indication; hint; intimation: They hadn't given us an inkling of what was going to happen.
  • suspicion — act of suspecting.
  • sense — any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body: My sense of smell tells me that dinner is ready.
  • surmise — to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.
  • flash — a precedence code for handling messages about initial enemy contact or operational combat messages of extreme urgency within the U.S. military.
  • gut reaction — instinctive response
  • second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
  • sixth sense — a power of perception beyond the five senses; intuition: His sixth sense warned him to be cautious.
  • intuitiveness — perceiving directly by intuition without rational thought, as a person or the mind.
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