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adjective

Intuitive adj.

Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision.

Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without deduction or reasoning. "Whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, or intuitive."

Received, reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition; as, intuitive judgment or knowledge; opposed to deductive.

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Etymology of 'Intuitive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intuitive" Quotes from Famous Books

... she wondered, or was it the expression of a profound disappointment? Sympathy such as John Benham had never awakened overflowed from her heart, and she was conscious suddenly of some deep intuitive understanding of Vetch's nature. All that had been alien or ambiguous became as close and true and simple as the thoughts in her own mind. What she saw in Vetch, she perceived now, was that resemblance to herself which the Judge had ...

— One Man in His Time • Ellen Glasgow

... had solved a portion of the problem—it was Clive Richmond and no other who had painted my copy of the 'Red Duchess.' How do I know? Well, with the expert it is a matter partly technical but more largely intuitive. How do you recognize a friend's face? How does the bank clerk detect the ...

— The Gates of Chance • Van Tassel Sutphen

... Rome, with art; what with a woman like Isabel? I had ventured on sacred ground and this was my punishment. A god had driven me forth. I had won my heart's desire; but before I could enjoy it a god, ironical but just, intuitive and swift to punish, had sent me down to my place in life. I would go to Reverdy, and stand before him in my familiar guise. He would not see Rome in my eyes; he would not know that I had been in Paradise; that in my heart shone a face that I had put by and ...

— Children of the Market Place • Edgar Lee Masters

... little action was performed with a view to the glory of God. Her trifling failings she deplored with anguish; every stain on the pure mirror of her conscience was instantly washed away by tears. It was not long before it pleased God to vouchsafe to her extraordinary graces. Her early and almost intuitive acquaintance with the mysteries of religion was wonderful. Every day she meditated on the Incarnation and the Passion of Jesus Christ; and her devotion to the Blessed Virgin increased in proportion to her love for our Lord. Her face ...

— The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others • Georgiana Fullerton

... which forms the subject of the present article—Pantomime, and which may be considered as the natural form of the visible language—literature being taken as the artificial. This is the most primitive as well as most comprehensive, of all. It is the earliest, as it is the most intuitive—the smiles and frowns of the mother being the first signs understood by the infant. Indeed, if we consider for a moment that all existence is but a Pantomime, of which Time is the harlequin, changing to-day into yesterday, summer into winter, youth into old age, and life into death, ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various

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