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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

... great Juliet is, indeed, more doubtful. We can imagine her as personating Lady Macbeth superbly, and hope soon to witness her in the part. As Juliet, her conception is almost perfect, as evinced by her rare and exceptional taste and intuitive understanding of the text. But her enactment of the earlier scenes lacks the exuberance and earnest joyfulness of the pure and glowing Flower of Italy, with all her fanciful conceits and ...

— Mary Anderson • J. M. Farrar

... the first practical application of the intuitive method, had an extraordinary success, and has served as a model for the innumerable illustrated books which for three centuries have invaded the schools. —COMPAYRE'S HISTORY OF PEDAGOGY, Payne's translation, Boston, ...

— The Orbis Pictus • John Amos Comenius

... men; the halt of the Brooklyn in mid-channel in face of that dire disaster, which, with the threatened huddling of the ships together by the inward sweep of the tide, portended swift discomfiture and possible defeat; the intuitive perception and quick decision that literally enabled Farragut to take the flood that led to fortune, in the instant ordering of the Hartford to push ahead with his flag and assume the lead he had relinquished only at the ...

— The Bay State Monthly - Volume 1, Issue 4 - April, 1884 • Various

... it a deep mistrust? She had never been clever; lessons had saddened and wearied her, without making her much the wiser. Yet her mind was of that order into which profound truths come by short-cuts. She was intuitive. ...

— The Blue Lagoon - A Romance • H. de Vere Stacpoole

... smile, half-indulgent, half-contemptuous. Lesley remembered, with intuitive comprehension of his mood, that her mother was singularly helpless, and never dressed without Dayman's help, or brushed the soft tresses that were still so luxuriant and so fair. She rebelled at once against the ...

— Brooke's Daughter - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

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