intuit

CEFRC1

/ɪnˈtjuːɪt/

verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To understand something without conscious reasoning or evidence.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    To know intuitively or by immediate perception.

Examples

  • I was able to intuit the truth before she told me.

  • She could intuit the feelings of others without speaking.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
2
Parts of speech
1
Citations
4

Also pronounced

  • /-ˈtʃuː-/
  • /ɪnˈtuɪt/

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In context

  • Some people can intuit the feelings of others very easily.

  • Can the method [Henri Bergson's doctrine of intuition] be taught and learned and practised? Is an education in intuiting possible? Or do intuitions just come to the privileged, unasked, unsought?

  • Bhandat frowned. The words had made no impression on him. And Mr Biswas knew for sure then, what he had intuited and dismissed: Bhandat was deaf.

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Origin

verb

A back-formation from intuition and intuitive; compare Latin intuitus (“observed; considered”), perfect participle of intueor (“to look at, upon or towards; to observe, regard; to consider, contemplate”), from in- (“in, inside”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”)) + tueor (“to look or gaze at”). Related to tuition, tutor.