English noun: intuition |
1. | intuition (cognition) instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes) |
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| Broader (hypernym) | basic cognitive process |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | feeling, gnosis, immediacy, immediate apprehension, insight, inspiration, intuitive feeling, sixth sense |
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2. | intuition (cognition) an impression that something might be the case |
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| Samples | He had an intuition that something had gone wrong.
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| Synonyms | hunch, suspicion |
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| Broader (hypernym) | belief, feeling, impression, notion, opinion |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bosom, heart |
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