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" Intuition " is the title of a free improvisation by the Lennie Tristano quintet. It was recorded on May 16, 1949, and is credited as being one of the first two freely improvised jazz recordings, along with "Digression" (made at the same session).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Late Latin intuitionem (nominative intuitio ) "a looking at, consideration," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin intueri "look at, consider," from in- "at, on" (see in- (2)) + tueri "to look at, watch over" (see tuition ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes. 2 A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes) an impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong" [syn: hunch , suspicion ]
Usage examples of intuition.
I knew by intuition those things which since my Apostacy, I collected again by the highest reason.
It is said of Dhanavantari, the father of Ayurveda, that he came to know the medicinal properties of plants by intuition.
Then, by a sort of Bergsonian intuition, he entered that character and watched from inside how he felt and behaved under the circumstances.
New England knows, if one came here as many a lonely youth had come here in the past, some boy from the inland immensity of America, some homesick lad from the South, from the marvellous hills of Old Catawba, he might be pierced again by the bitter ecstasy of youth, the ecstasy that tears him apart with a cry that has no tongue, the ecstasy that is proud, lonely, and exultant, that is fierce with joy and a moment, that the intangible cannot be touched, the ungraspable cannot be grasped--the imperial and magnificent minute is gone for ever which, with all its promises, its million intuitions, he wishes to clothe with the living substance of beauty.
When the two sketches were finished, he laid them on the table and moved them back and forth, up and down, beside each other, above and below each other, and tried to comprehend by sheer concentration, and intuition as well, how the two coastlands must relate to each other.
Rani stared at him from beneath her lashes wondering why her intuition was telling her that Flint Cottrell would never fit neatly into a single category.
Billy Blade and the fashionable dandies of her acquaintance was obvious, she could not escape the nagging intuition that the gang leader was not entirely what he seemed.
She explained her vector analysis to the enzymologist, translating her intuition into numbers.
Only intuition can permit mankind to see and hear the footsteps of those geochemical spirits who have managed the life of a functioning whole world as a single organism.
It was distinct from everything else but just as much a part of him, conditionally equal, the problem located in whatever neocortical region nurtures the intuition, that contrapuntal faculty his mathematics relied on.
Intuition told Sano that a direct connection between Noriyoshi and the Niu clan must exist, that it provided the motive for the murders.
When I had a Warlock neuro-form, I joined a different scholum, and the Warlocks taught me that the nonrational sections of the brain were sources of higher wisdom, that dreams, instincts, and intuitions were superior to logic.
Basic Moral Intuition is an infusion of Care for all four quadrants, but does not come with instructions engraved in stone tablets.
The BMI delivers to us an intuition to implement the greatest depth across the greatest span, a spiritual Concern for all four quadrants, and the painful dilemmas of how to implement this intuition are the dilemmas of finite beings in finite circumstances attempting to honor an infinite Care.
The former appeals to our intuition about gravity in the traditional Newtonian framework, whereas the latter expresses a reformulation of gravity in terms of curved space.