Vocabulary Word
Word: intuition
Definition: immediate insight; power of knowing without reasoning; ADJ. intuitive; V. intuit: know by intuition
Definition: immediate insight; power of knowing without reasoning; ADJ. intuitive; V. intuit: know by intuition
Sentences Containing 'intuition'
Of course no mechanical jogging will introduce the vital quality referred to, which must come from the vitality of the artist's intuition; although I have heard of photographers jogging the camera in an endeavor to introduce some artistic``play''in its mechanical renderings.
Then it was that the lust of the chase would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals.
she cried, glancing from one to the other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come.
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