Dictionary entry

Intuitive

Webster's Dictionary 1913

In‐tu″i‐tive (?), a. [Cf. F. intuitif.]

1. Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision.

2. Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without deduction or reasoning.

Whence the soul

Reason receives, and reason is her being,

Discursive, or intuitive. Milton.

3. Received, reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition; as, intuitive judgment or knowledge; — opposed to deductive. Locke.