intuiting
Grasping without reasoning
Intuiting is grasping something immediately without conscious reasoning—knowing without knowing how you know.
The word suggests direct perception rather than logical analysis: She was intuiting his mood from subtle cues, I'm just intuiting here, but I think something's wrong.
It often carries a slightly self-conscious tone, acknowledging the knowledge lacks firm evidence.
Sudden profound insight
- realizationGrasping what's true
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- discernmentKeen perception and judgment
clarity · awareness · aha · revelation · comprehension · grasp · cognizance · perspicacity
Advance sense of future events
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
- presentimentVague sense of future events
- suspicionSense of unease about motives
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
feeling · guess · presage · anticipation · sense · notion · impression · glimmer
Interpreting written text
- attunementHarmonious receptive connection
- rapportHarmonious mutual connection
- sensitivityResponsiveness to stimuli
- receptivityWillingness to accept ideas
perceptiveness · understanding · emotional intelligence · picking up on · vibes · energy · unspoken · nonverbal
Digestive tract, or instinct
- visceralArising from deep instinct
- primalFirst in origin
- innateExisting since birth
- reflexInvoluntary stimulus response
impulse · instinctual · inborn · natural · automatic · unconscious · hardwired · unlearned
Paranormal future awareness
- clairvoyanceExtrasensory perception ability
- prescienceKnowledge of future events
- foreknowledgeAwareness of future events
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
prophecy · augury · prognostication · extrasensory · psychic · telepathy · ESP · paranormal
epiphany
Sudden profound insight
- realizationGrasping what's true
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
discernment · clarity · awareness · aha · revelation · comprehension · grasp · cognizance · perspicacity · acumen
premonition
Advance sense of future events
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
- presentimentVague sense of future events
- suspicionSense of unease about motives
inkling · feeling · guess · presage · anticipation · sense · notion · impression · glimmer · suggestion
reading
Interpreting written text
- attunementHarmonious receptive connection
- rapportHarmonious mutual connection
- sensitivityResponsiveness to stimuli
receptivity · perceptiveness · understanding · emotional intelligence · picking up on · vibes · energy · unspoken · nonverbal · interpersonal
gut
Digestive tract, or instinct
reflex · impulse · instinctual · inborn · natural · automatic · unconscious · hardwired · unlearned · spontaneous
precognition
Paranormal future awareness
- clairvoyanceExtrasensory perception ability
- prescienceKnowledge of future events
- foreknowledgeAwareness of future events
divination · prophecy · augury · prognostication · extrasensory · psychic · telepathy · ESP · paranormal · supernatural
- understandingunderstand, comprehend, grasp, fathom, follow
- divinationdivination, fortune telling, fortune-telling, fortune teller, tarot
- thinkingthinking, reasoning, thought, ponder, contemplate
- mental statesknowledge, conscious, mood, anxious, memory
- graspinggrasping, apprehending, comprehending, understanding, catching
- imaginingimagining, visualizing, envisioning, picturing, conceiving
intuitingreasoning
Drawing logical conclusions
deducing · calculating · analyzing · inferring · deliberating
intuitingdisbelieving
Refusing to accept something
doubting · ignoring · dismissing · rejecting · questioning
- intuitive leapGrasping without reasoning through
- intuitive eatingDiet-free body-responsive eating
- intuitive designInterface requiring no instruction
- intuitive thinkingCognition through instinct
- moral intuitionImmediate ethical judgment
- intuitive understandingKnowledge felt, not learned
intuition, intuitive, intuitively, counterintuitive, intuitionism, nonintuitive, unintuitive