intuition
/ˌɪn.tuˈɪʃ.ən/ noun C1- Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
- A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.
Plural intuitions
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I have a kind of intuition that way.
Then it was that the lust of the chase would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals.
I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were submitted to him.
There may be an occasional want of imaginative intuition down there, but they lead the world for thoroughness and method.
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