intuit
/ɪnˈtuɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.49 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To know intuitively or by immediate perception.
Example Sentences
- "Accordingly ſome have been pleaſed to name the complex of the phaenomena, so far as it is intuited i.e. apprehended immediately, the ſenſual world, but ſo far as its connection is thought according to univerſal laws of understanding, the intellectual world."
- "The first principles of every science are innate, or native to the mind, only in the sense that such is its nature, that it directly intuits them, a priori, as necessary and absolute truths, independently of the affirmations of sense, experience, or any discursive proof."
- "The function of Pure Reason is, first:—to intuit, by an immediate perception, the a priori elemental principles which condition all being; second,—to intuit, by a like immediate perception, those principles, combined in a priori systematic processes, which are the conditional ideal forms for all being; and third,—again to intuit, by another immediate perception, precisely similar in kind to the others, the fact, at least, of the perfectly harmonious combination of all a priori elemental principles, in all possible systematic processes, into a perfect unity,—an absolute, infinite Person,—God."
- "Can the method [Henri Bergson's doctrine of intuition] be taught and learned and practised? Is an education in intuiting possible? Or do intuitions just come to the privileged, unasked, unsought?"
- "Bhandat frowned. The words had made no impression on him. And Mr Biswas knew for sure then, what he had intuited and dismissed: Bhandat was deaf."
Etymology
A back-formation from intuition and intuitive; compare Latin intuitus (“observed; considered”), perfect participle of intueor (“to look at, upon or towards; to observe, regard; to consider, contemplate”), from in- (“in, inside”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”)) + tueor (“to look or gaze at”). Related to tuition, tutor.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: intuitus, *h₁én
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪnˈtuɪt/
- British English: /ɪnˈtjuːɪt/