1. (n.) An impression; an instinctive feeling\.

2. (n.) Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness; -- distinguished from mediate knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not a square, that three are more than two, etc.; quick or ready insight or apprehension.

3. (n.) Any object or truth discerned by direct cognition; especially, a first or primary truth.

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