direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process; immediate apprehension.

a fact, truth, etc., perceived in this way.

a keen and quick insight.

the quality or ability of having such direct perception or quick insight.

Philosophy .

an immediate cognition of an object not inferred or determined by a previous cognition of the same object.

any object or truth so discerned.

pure, untaught, noninferential knowledge.

Linguistics . the ability of the native speaker to make linguistic judgments, as of the grammaticality, ambiguity, equivalence, or nonequivalence of sentences, deriving from the speaker's native-language competence.

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knowledge , reason , reasoning

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clairvoyance , discernment , divination , esp * , feeling * , foreknowledge , gut reaction * , hunch * , innate knowledge , inspiration , instinct , intuitiveness , nose * , penetration , perception , perceptivity , premonition , presentiment , second sight * , sixth sense * , hunch , idea , impression , suspicion , insight , sixth sense , anschauung , apprehension , a priori , apriority , conception , cryptesthesia , eidos , esp , extrasensory perception , feeling , percipience , precognition , prescience , second sight , sense