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verb
To know intuitively or by immediate perception.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
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verb
know or grasp by intuition or feeling
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend
History
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.
Across languages
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
