Lexic.us

Definition of Intuitive

1. Adjective. Spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency. "An intuitive revulsion"

2. Adjective. Obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation.

Definition of Intuitive

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

Definition of Intuitive

1. Adjective. spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought; easily understood or grasped by intuition ¹

2. Adjective. having a marked degree of intuition ¹

3. Noun. One who has (especially parapsychological) intuition. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Intuitive

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Intuitive

1. 1. Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision. 2. 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." (Milton) 3. Received. Reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition; as, intuitive judgment or knowledge; opposed to deductive. Origin: Cf. F. Intuitif. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intuitive

intuiting intuition intuitional intuitionalism intuitionalist intuitionalists intuitionism intuitionisms intuitionist intuitionistic

intuitionistic logic intuitionistically intuitionists intuitionless intuitions intuitive (current term) intuitive feeling intuitive stage intuitively intuitiveness

intuitivenesses intuitivism intuits intumesce intumesced intumescence intumescences intumescency intumescent intumescent cataract

Literary usage of Intuitive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Frank Hesketh Peters (1881)
"The intuitive reason, then, is both beginning and end ; for demonstration both starts from and terminates in these ultimate truths [which reason supplies]. ..."

2. American Journal of Education (1881)
"Has experience discovered any rooks to be avoided In the nee of intuitive methods? What is the intuitive method ? "What are the sciences of observation to ..."

3. An Essay Concerning the Human Understanding by John Locke (1813)
"By sensation, perceiving the existence of particular things: hence it also follows, § 3. 3. intuitive knowledge extends itself not to all the relations of ..."

4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"His statements are intuitive; but we shall find that he has a curious alternating method of intuitive statement which amounts to resolution of the main idea ..."

5. Psychology; Or, The Science of Mind by Oliver S. Munsell (1880)
"intuitive concepts; and, 2. intuitive beliefs or primitive judgments ; which ... intuitive Truths or Primitive Judgments.—Under this general head must be ..."

6. Mental Philosophy Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will by Joseph Haven (1883)
"intuitive CONCEPTIONS. Of the results or operations of the faculty under consideration, we have considered, as yet, only that class which may be designated ..."

7. The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated by James McCosh (1882)
"intuitive PRINCIPLES INVOLVED IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES. ... Most, if not all, of our intuitive convictions enter, in a tacit way, into physical ..."

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