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English

Etymology

intuit +? -able

Adjective

intuitable (comparative more intuitable, superlative most intuitable)

1. Capable of being intuitively sensed or understood.

English

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- (“prefix meaning ‘in, inside’”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?én (“in”)) + tueor (“to look or gaze at”) (from Proto-Indo-European *tewH- (“to observe; to look favourably upon”)). See tuition, tutor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?tju??t/, /-?t?u?-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?tu?t/
• Hyphenation: in?tu?it

Verb

intuit (third-person singular simple present intuits, present participle intuiting, simple past and past participle intuited)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To know intuitively or by immediate perception.

Related terms

• intuitable
• intuition
• intuitive
• intuitively
• intuitiveness

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Further reading

• intuition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• intuit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.