intuitively
By gut feeling
Intuitively describes doing or knowing something through instinct rather than conscious reasoning.
If you intuitively grasp a concept, you understand it without working through the steps.
Something that works intuitively feels natural and requires no instruction: The interface is intuitively designed.
The word often implies that understanding comes easily or automatically.
Intuitive suspicions
- visceralArising from deep instinct
- primalFirst in origin
- innateExisting since birth
- inbornExisting from birth
inherent · instinctual · hardwired · reflexively · unthinking · automatic · subconscious · unconscious
Perception or judgment
- feelPerceive by touch
- discernPerceive with careful attention
- graspSeize or understand
- perceiveBecome conscious of
detect · recognize · notice · read · attune · anticipate · divine · glean
Without visible labor
- naturallywithout artificial help
- instinctivelyBy innate impulse
- unrehearsedNot practiced beforehand
- unplannedNot arranged beforehand
impromptu · extemporaneous · offhand · unpremeditated · on-the-spot · freestyle · uncontrived · unforced
Sudden profound insight
- realizationGrasping what's true
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- illuminationProvision of light
- satoriSudden spiritual awakening
clarity · discernment · understanding · comprehension · grasp · perception · awareness · enlightenment
hunches
Intuitive suspicions
inborn · inherent · instinctual · hardwired · reflexively · unthinking · automatic · subconscious · unconscious · animalistic
sense
Perception or judgment
perceive · detect · recognize · notice · read · attune · anticipate · divine · glean · surmise
effortlessly
Without visible labor
- naturallywithout artificial help
- instinctivelyBy innate impulse
- unrehearsedNot practiced beforehand
unplanned · impromptu · extemporaneous · offhand · unpremeditated · on-the-spot · freestyle · uncontrived · unforced · fluidly
epiphany
Sudden profound insight
- realizationGrasping what's true
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- illuminationProvision of light
satori · clarity · discernment · understanding · comprehension · grasp · perception · awareness · enlightenment · cognizance
- adverbsquickly, slowly, very, really, now
- mental adverbsmentally, cognitively, consciously, unconsciously, subconsciously
- autopilot modeautopilot, automatic, unconscious, subconscious, instinctively
- adverbs of easeeasily, smoothly, effortlessly, naturally, seamlessly
intuitivelyanalytically
By careful systematic reasoning
logically · systematically · methodically · rationally · deliberately
intuitivelyempirically
Through direct observation
evidentially · demonstrably · provably · scientifically · experimentally
intuitivelycounterintuitively
Against natural expectation
obtusely · obscurely · confusingly · opaquely · puzzlingly
- intuitive leapGrasping without reasoning through
- intuitive eatingDiet-free body-responsive eating
- intuitive designInterface requiring no instruction
- intuitive thinkingCognition through instinct
- intuitive understandingKnowledge felt, not learned
- intuitive knowledgeUnderstanding without explicit learning