intuitions
Immediate unlearned knowings
Intuitions are immediate understandings or judgments that arrive without conscious reasoning—things you know or sense without being able to explain how.
The singular intuition names this faculty or a single instance of it: Trust your intuition.
Intuitions guide decisions when logic falls short: My intuitions told me something was wrong.
In philosophy, intuitions serve as starting points for arguments about ethics or knowledge.
Extrasensory perception ability
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- precognitionParanormal future awareness
- extrasensoryBeyond ordinary perception
- telepathyDirect mental communication
divination · prophecy · vision · foreknowledge · ESP · foresight · supernatural · mediumship
Slight, uncertain awareness
- suspicionSense of unease about motives
- feelingSensed inner state
- notionImprecise mental impression
- impressionEffect on the mind
conjecture · guesswork · surmise · assumption · presumption · speculation · sense · vibe
Sudden profound insight
- realizationGrasping what's true
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
- clarityState of being understandable
discernment · comprehension · revelation · grasp · illumination · perspicacity · flash · recognition
Existing since birth
- primalFirst in origin
- inbornExisting from birth
- inherentExisting as essential part
- naturalNot artificially produced
automatic · subconscious · hardwired · biological · reflex · unconscious · survival · maternal
Internal moral sense
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
- scruplesMoral reservations about acting
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
- fairnessJust and equal treatment
clairvoyance
Extrasensory perception ability
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- precognitionParanormal future awareness
- extrasensoryBeyond ordinary perception
telepathy · divination · prophecy · vision · foreknowledge · ESP · foresight · supernatural · mediumship · prophetic
inkling
Slight, uncertain awareness
impression · conjecture · guesswork · surmise · assumption · presumption · speculation · sense · vibe · foreboding
epiphany
Sudden profound insight
- realizationGrasping what's true
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
clarity · discernment · comprehension · revelation · grasp · illumination · perspicacity · flash · recognition · perception
innate
Existing since birth
natural · automatic · subconscious · hardwired · biological · reflex · unconscious · survival · maternal · paternal
conscience
Internal moral sense
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
- scruplesMoral reservations about acting
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
fairness · values · judgment · discernment
- inner lifeidentity, feelings, memory, thoughts, self-discovery
- premonitionspremonitions, forebodings, presentiments, forewarnings, omens
- implicit cognitionimplicit bias, unconscious bias, priming, procedural memory, subliminal perception
- thoughtsthought, idea, thoughts, ideas, thinking
- faint signshints, traces, inklings, whispers, glimpses
intuitionsdeductions
Conclusions from reasoning
reasoning · calculations · deliberations · analyses · logic
intuitionsevidence
Facts supporting truth
proof · facts · demonstrations · hard evidence · measurements
- moral intuitionImmediate ethical judgment